“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”
He's so egotistical about it. Insults mods as "landed gentry" and users' concerns as "noise" - but those are literally the people that have created this "valuable dataset" he's coveting so greedily.