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@dartos @Awoo what about capitalism made it great ? It was the people that made it great imo it just came to be under capitalism
It just wouldn’t have existed at all without VC funding.
Lemmy exists now because Reddit already existed, built the model link sharing site, and over years of ad revenue and VC money, convinced communities to gather there and then convinced those same communities to move to lemmy