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[-] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years 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.

[-] okiokbar@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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?

[-] okiokbar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Threads isn’t a Lemmy competitor - it competes with Mastodon

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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

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