> How much would it cost to fund an open source alternative ecosystem? Lots of people were throwing this out there when twitter got bought by Musk, like "how h

> How much would it cost to fund an open source alternative ecosystem? Lots of people were throwing this out there when twitter got bought by Musk, like "how hard is it to build a twitter clone anyway?" Incredibly difficult and expensive at scale. Aside from infrastructure costs and maintenance, which would be considerable, you'd also have the content moderation problem which can spiral out of control quickly depending on which locality's laws you are possibly violating (it's different everywhere), etc. Many many millions of dollars at least, and to get to IG/Facebook scale with billions of daily users, I'd wager a lot more.