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user-inactivated  ·  3718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Ello: A Design Disaster" - Jeffry van der Goot

It also claims that it won't be trying to obtain any monetary income or sell user data, but it got seed funding from a Venture Capital investor.

You don't claim the former and get the latter. Those investors are expecting a return, and ello will have to provide it somehow.

Edit: I also checked out their invite webpage and thought it looked ugly as hell. Wasn't expecing much more from the main site.