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[โ€“] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days 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.