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[โ€“] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those suckers sold it to google for a billion dollars. They got screwed.

[โ€“] Fissionami@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I heard they were barely able to contain the site at the end as the growth began and expense of maintaining it skyrocketed.