• MotoAsh@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    How does it not? This isn’t a fucking debate. How would artificially bloating the number of tokens they sell not help their bottom line?

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      4 days ago

      Because they currently lose money for every token sold. They’re operating at a loss to generate a userbase so that they can monetize later. They’re currently in the pre-enshittification (I still don’t like that word) phase where they want to offer a good product at a loss and lure in customers, not phase 2 where they monetize their userbase.

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        4 days ago

        and? How do you not understand that more money is better for them even if they’re not in the black, yet?

        Two things can be true at once.

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          4 days ago

          Creating additional tokens LOSES them money. For a single token, the cost of generating it exceeds the profits.

          I genuinely don’t understand what would drive someone to be this condescending when you don’t even understand the argument I have clearly laid out four times now.

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              3 days ago

              Are you? Because now we’ve agreed on every fact to determine my conclusion is correct. Yes they do want people using their product; they want to lure in customers. Wasting tokens generating unhelpful output would both drive customers away with a worse experience, and cost them more money. So there’s no reason for them to do that. Like I said in my first post.