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		guelo on March 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Come and help save Posterous from oblivion In the long-term web startups will be dead because it will be more and more obvious that it's imposible to trust your data to for-profit companies that simply cannot maintain your interest in mind no matter what promises they make. Everything important should be on open-source, community run, nonprofit platforms.

ricardobeat on March 13, 2013 | [–]

Or be hosted with a company that has a sustainable business model from the get-go.

calebegg on March 13, 2013 | [–]

"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." -- John Maynard Keynes

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