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> Wikipedia's costs do not grow linearly with the amount of people accessing it. Signal has to run servers and store the data for every user it has. Wikipedia
by matkoniecz 6y ago
> Wikipedia's costs do not grow linearly with the amount of people accessing it. Signal has to run servers and store the data for every user it has.
Wikipedia also needs to run servers. Slope may be less steep and there is part for hosting of content but mandatory costs are also growing linearly with the amount of people accessing it.
(WMF problems and how money is spend is a bit related issue, but it is not mandatory spending)
- rglullis 6y agoIf network/storage were really a key factor in the costs of running wikipedia, they should be pushing it hard to get a decentralized version of it. So far political (Turkey shutting down their access in the country) and not technical/operational/capital issues have pushed them in this direction.