▲ 766 ▼ 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay (media.piefed.social) submitted 9 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 314 comments fedilink hide all child comments Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 child) In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon 😭 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago It's impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It's pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago It's impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It's pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime. permalink fedilink source parent