My point is that this “fight” between products shouldn’t happen in the first place because Meta is pretty much guaranteed to win that fight. Assuming open source can compete on features (which I seriously doubt) and has more developers, those are people working for free mostly doing their own passion project. In terms of actual working hours corporations like Meta have that army of developers beaten by a mile. In terms of velocity, how fast a corporation can push out features vs how fast an open source community could do it, the corporation wins. Maybe eventually the open source solution reaches feature parity, but by that time it doesn’t matter because everyone is using the product that pushed out the features faster.
And that would be the better product until the enshittification begins and monetization kills all that was good. It’s literally why people are moving from Reddit to Lemmy, because if we leave the enshittification aside then Reddit is objectively the better product. If you think the better product should win then Lemmy shouldn’t even exist because Reddit is just better. But it does exist and it’s growing because the better product is being cashed out. If you just think about the “what’s the best software” you end up with Reddit 2.0.
My point is that this “fight” between products shouldn’t happen in the first place because Meta is pretty much guaranteed to win that fight. Assuming open source can compete on features (which I seriously doubt) and has more developers, those are people working for free mostly doing their own passion project. In terms of actual working hours corporations like Meta have that army of developers beaten by a mile. In terms of velocity, how fast a corporation can push out features vs how fast an open source community could do it, the corporation wins. Maybe eventually the open source solution reaches feature parity, but by that time it doesn’t matter because everyone is using the product that pushed out the features faster.
And that would be the better product until the enshittification begins and monetization kills all that was good. It’s literally why people are moving from Reddit to Lemmy, because if we leave the enshittification aside then Reddit is objectively the better product. If you think the better product should win then Lemmy shouldn’t even exist because Reddit is just better. But it does exist and it’s growing because the better product is being cashed out. If you just think about the “what’s the best software” you end up with Reddit 2.0.