There is a flip side to this in open source also... For example, Kafka was created by LinkedIn, but senior developers left LinkedIn and founded Confluent, and now Confluent largely controls Kafka development. Open source allowed employees to become owners.
Since twetch is afraid to tell me the net profit of my tweaks (tweak is to twetch as tweet is to twitter), I have split my account between MoneyButton and RelayX. Spend comes from RelayX, income goes to MoneyButton.
It is a very difficult service to provide reliably. Requires a lot of highly-accurate /etc/magic, as they say. It's all about content types and magic numbers.
I encourage all people joining r/* to get off reddit. I tell the story about how reddit pioneered using bots to attract human audiences and to moderate the behavior of human communities, and did so under Air Force contract. Real reason Swartz off'd himself
I pay 1/20th the tx fees by using AV1. Notice the file size of the video you are watching. AV1 is becoming ubiquitous, but still sucks on iPhone. Android renderer is slow. VLC for Mobile plays them well. Glad to hear Firefox works! Check rav1e/dav1d/libaom