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I wonder why he thought it could turn a profit, throwing 100k into the trash for fedi is extremely retarded.

I'm sure it was a gradual thing. You get some donations and expand. I don't fault graf for trying to build something. Maybe trying to sell more subscription stuff earlier on would have helped, but the Internet has been in the "free" "gibs" means of operation since before the '01 dotcom bust.

Sites come and go. It is a pretty impressive instance deployment, I'll give it that. I know the NoAgenda guy funds his entire infrastructure himself and doesn't take donations (par the court for people who listen to the podcast and believe in the 'value for value' model).

I've quit my job to work on projects while travelling twice before. I lived out of hostels and visited friends for 11 months. I always ended up back in the workforce though. I got some adventures out of it. Graf seems to have gotten further than I have ... takes a lot of effort, and you gotta be a type-A hardass to make anything really take off in this world. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that.

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you are fat (fact) 2y ago

I think it’s more like he had a fantasy of how big and popular poast would be and built things out to that extent, and then kept making bad decisions to chase revenue, some of which caused ppl and some ecelebs to leave. He seems to be making bad decisions again too.

NonPlayableClown 2y ago

But if you are going to quit your day job or start any entrepreneurship you have to take in consideration of risk.

To follow the underwear gnomes of profit making is quite retarded.

Build something in mind of how you can make money if you are being serious in a business.

But this is just straight up pathetic, and all of it of his doing.

Maybe he'll have better luck as a youtube streamer.