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I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe they saw it as an acqui-hire moment to get their staff, or at least keep them from going ro a conpetitor.

Of course, that assumes social media owners have clues and strategy; it seems like a lot of them were "we stumbled into vsast success, now what."