I honestly don’t know why AI companies aren’t pushing Lemmy and Mastodon. Meanwhile they’re paying Reddit millions. If everyone switched, they could just open an instance and vacuum everything over activity pub.
It’s easier/faster/cheaper to just pay for it and they get a lot of already existing data as well. Even if they’d pay the low price of a dollar for every monthly active user on Reddit to switch over to lemmy, that’d cost them 850 millions.
Reddit has 15+ years of content. We have soon 1 year of “many” users and a few years before that with sparse content. There is no comparison now and the companies need the data now.
I honestly don’t know why AI companies aren’t pushing Lemmy and Mastodon. Meanwhile they’re paying Reddit millions. If everyone switched, they could just open an instance and vacuum everything over activity pub.
It’s easier/faster/cheaper to just pay for it and they get a lot of already existing data as well. Even if they’d pay the low price of a dollar for every monthly active user on Reddit to switch over to lemmy, that’d cost them 850 millions.
Reddit has 15+ years of content. We have soon 1 year of “many” users and a few years before that with sparse content. There is no comparison now and the companies need the data now.
I like this, we should generally encourage companies to put out quality open source stuff to undermine each other