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The fact that someone can download all posts on a social network tells you how little usage it has attracted.
by mikece 3y ago
The fact that someone can download all posts on a social network tells you how little usage it has attracted.
- skc 3y agoIt's still in closed Beta and invite only
- XorNot 3y agoWhich broadly describes why things are going okay there. There isn't anything to moderate, there's no spam, there's no fixated person harrassment. There's nothing hard being solved.
- manojlds 3y agoEh, it's in a closed beta.
- waboremo 3y agoEven on large platforms you can (technically) download all posts. Might take some time and you might need to cycle some storage, but it's doable. So I don't really think that's a great metric to observe usage. Ignoring that judging usage based on a still invite only platform is also a little silly.
- capableweb 3y agoWould be interesting to see if your comment has any basis at all by comparing how things looked for Twitter at the same timescale, or Facebook, or any other social media. Just to look at the numbers in isolation is hardly interesting.
- ndriscoll 3y agoYou can download all of the (public) posts and comments on Reddit. It's a ~2TB torrent.
- visarga 3y agohmm... that makes it larger than RedPajama, a dataset of 1.2 trillion tokens how much of reddit is being used for AI? it looks like there's plenty of text in there; maybe we just need to parse the reddit with GPT to filter out the good parts, and got a great dataset
- est 3y agowhy would download posts be difficult to begin with? You know in the past, the Internet were designed to be downloadablein the first place, like USENET, FTP, etc.