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[–] illi@lemm.ee 145 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They need to make it nice first, to reel people in. Once they are in and invested, that's when ads start.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago

It's a classic (enshittification tactic)

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wait till you see the -ification.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

that's when they start filtering out the genuine content and show you mostly promoted stuff

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. that's the classic shitty business model

  • Make a site that's attractive to use for a lot of people

  • Once you have enough people, lock in the users with network effect, walled garden, etc

  • Use the users to draw in businesses

  • Lock in the businesses and squeeze them for profit.

  • Squeeze users and businesses for money, abandon any maintenance and improvement on the site except for monetization.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

It's the 3 D's.

  1. Develop the product
  2. Draw people in
  3. Dump a nice steamy log on the whole thing