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how to block meta from mastodon (self.technology)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by downpunxx to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Marxine 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Marxine 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