iamthewalrus@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Make America Mad Again—Mad About the Trillions of Dollars Taken From Them by the Very Rich
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9 months agoI’m not a mod but am pretty sure this is opinion, not news. Therefore not allowed in this sub.
I’m not a mod but am pretty sure this is opinion, not news. Therefore not allowed in this sub.
I generally agree, but one counter example I keep thinking of is Wikipedia. Massively successful site with few rivals despite being a nonprofit. I imagine a social media app could build some degree of success with that model. The main obstacles to my mind are a good UI/UX and a community funding approach sufficient to keep ahead of growth. It’s not yet clear whether Lemmy is “the one” to provide either. As great as the fediverse concept is, it’s harder to use and to consolidate funding for than it perhaps should be.
Homeless kids deserve childhoods too, but can’t help thinking there must be higher priority items than sending them to Disney. A tragedy of this story is maybe those grants wouldn’t have been diverted and could have been stretched further had they been spent on more useful things.