Despite being a free product, free search engines make a lot of money. Kagi’s Why Pay for Search says that, “In 2022 Google generated USD $224.47 Billion dollars from advertisement revenue while processing approximately 8 Billion searches per day. At 365 days per year this amounts to approximately USD $0.07 revenue per search. If an average user searches 5 times per day, assuming a 30 day month this results in Google generating USD $11 revenue per user per month.
People aren’t allowed to post their own stuff now? That’s been the norm since forever.
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Who do you ask permission from and how? Message the mods? Post a poll?
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When does “forever” start?
Before the internet even existed. You are aware that forums have existed before anyone made an account on Lemmy, right?
The etiquette of other forums don’t define the etiquette here. You’re aware that the entire internet doesn’t exist in a monoculture, right?
If nobody was allowed to post their own stuff, then things like official comic accounts wouldn’t exist. Or official accounts in general.
We wouldn’t want official accounts of any corporation in this community.
That seems unwise.
It would be better to have some known corporate accounts, than only unknown corporate accounts.