I think my pessimism is just based purely on how other tech companies operate, and the nature of large publically traded companies, they have every obligation to make more cash for shareholders. There’s only so many ways to do that, cut costs, sell more, or raise prices. Easiest is to cut costs, so fewer admins on worse hardware. There’s always only so many customers who will ever buy, and demand elasticity determines how much they can charge at any given moment.

Advertisers are one customer they can work with really easily, I don’t doubt that posts could be seeded internally for those purposes. Again though, all this is hearsay based on poll numbers, just the nature of the beast informs my thoughts on it

Perhaps not, but I don’t doubt that it’s had an effect for the worse either way

Definitely not because going public shifted their obligations to trying to make as much money as possible

Problem isn’t your own use, it’s everyone using them, as a network of real time surveillance cameras at the beck and call of corpo terrorists

Don’t believe everything you think