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Probably very unpopular thoughts but...
A) How many of us wouldn't angle for an almost 200 million dollar payout? Seriously? All of us are too good for that?
B) Social media like reddit is basically free for users and costs way more than most of us could afford to run. We probably need to figure out some middle ground where people expect to pay a few pennies for something they use for hours a day. Unfortunately, advertising etc has conditioned/conned people into thinking everything should be "free" and with ads.
Most people wouldn't even know what to do with that kind of money, I doubt spez even has use for it all, its just big number goes up.
He should give it back to society and have a humble income, everyone should do this.
As to "B:" we have Lemmy, run by enthusiasm and donations. Maybe one day we will get media like video to an even smaller size and have a federated YouTube style site.
AV1 could actually be huge for PeerTube, now that I think about it