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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeh, if he bought twitter for 44B, and there are 400 instances then that is still 110M per instance if he were to do that again.
Even 10% of that amount is more than an instance is worth.
Sales can be made pretty quickly when they are massively overvalued.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some instances' admins are not so easily bought! I hope, at least.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Meh, I say sell the insurance. It is relatively easy to spin up a new one. Let Elmo waste money.