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leisesprecher 98 points 2 years ago

What's really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.

Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.

Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There's nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.

What are the devs doing all day?

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Johanno 51 points 2 years ago

Lemmy wasn't made in a few months. However development increased a lot once the api war started.

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Donjuanme 7 points 2 years ago

You mean stamped out, stomped implies extinguishing, stamped means mass production of some sort.

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orcrist 7 points 2 years ago

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echodot 1 point 2 years ago

I'm surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven't noticed.

I'm not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.

If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.

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gwen 7 points 2 years ago

stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.

what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?

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april 43 points 2 years ago

They are referring to the lemmy developers

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leisesprecher 17 points 2 years ago

Where exactly do you think you're writing this?

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yourgodlucifer 5 points 2 years ago

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Frozyre 3 points 2 years ago

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umbrella 0 points 2 years ago

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