• catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    You’re severely underestimating the budget Meta can throw at this. Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. right now are largely volunteer-run as opposed to full-time employees.

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      1 year ago

      That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.

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        1 year ago

        They can compete of they have the manpower to do so. Lemmy has literally only 2 devs. How many devs can Meta pay to work on Threads and outpace it?

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            1 year ago

            But they can easily implement Lemmy-like features on it or make another sister-app. It isn’t hard to bruteforce such things when you have that much money and developers