• kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

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      25 days ago

      I mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.

      That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.

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        24 days ago

        Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites

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          24 days ago

          The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

          Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

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            24 days ago

            That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects