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[–] lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Well, you get the shares "cheap" because it's not profitable and hope that they turn profitable, e.g. by selling user data, or paywalling everything like Twitter. The mods make $0. For them, it's probably more like: Why are the mods only paying us $0? How can we maximize that?