@gregly @ichderfisch @eniko Years ago, when Yahoo was…more of a thing, it acquired a bunch of interesting indie web projects, among them Delicious, which was (I think) the first social bookmarking service. It also introduced many people to the idea of tags. It could have been a way to scale up human-curated search.
As Yahoo did with all of its acquisitions (also including Flickr and Upcoming), it sat on them, invested no resources into them, and let them slowly die.
@adamrice @gregly @ichderfisch @eniko they had the same problem that is now looming onto the fediverse: not a financially sustainable service in the long run. As historical data gets accumulated, expenses grow. Revenue to sustain them doesn't.
Wikipedia is also facing it, but probably a somewhat different scenario due to more static content.
Google have their own solution for this type of problems that we all hate: shut down the service without providing a way to export data.
