The problem people have is positivity bias, they always think this new / other company is different. Omg reddit isn't like Twitter, and reddit isn't like Discord.

They are all the same, they endgoal is to be a billionaire by the time they are 50. They don't care about us, they don't care about the platform they will just to be billionaires.

Spez is really no different than Elon, and Elon is no different than whoever runs Discord. They all have the same endgame goals, to be a billionaire. They tell you the sweet little lies, they pander to your ideology to pretend they are one of you, they give you nice gifts to build trust and destroy competition.

The goal is money, going public is about money and people only want to invest if there is a good path to making far more money long term.

So yes going public does mean screwing over users, it's just how long till you get screwed. Name one company that went public that didn't goto crap in the following years, you can't cause the balance of power immediately moves form the users to the share holders lol

Consolidating communication around 2 for profit corporations with aspirations of being billionaires (just as happened with twitter btw, Jack is a billioanaire now and doesn't give a fk about twitter) is not a good idea. Cause you don't know where the company will be in 5 years.

The reason the blackout will do nothing is because a) there is really no alternatives now and b) muh 48 hours.