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SamBBMe@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s also privately owned by one guy, so it doesn’t have to submit to investor pressure.
Steam, for example, is basically a monopoly for PC game sales, but hasn’t enshittified because it is privately owned.
dlrht@lemm.ee 1 year ago
While I agree that this does avoid enshitification, it’s always possible for a privately owned company to IPO. That’s why all of us are even here to begin with
Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s also certainly possible for a privately owned company (even one owned by a single individual) to undergo enshitification, it is only (if anything) less likely.
SamBBMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s probably as good as we are going to get.
The best options would be an open source, donation supported search engine, but the money required to host/develop that is immense.
We are all freeloading off of Lemmy right now, unless you are donating to the people who are running the servers. The cost to run a search engine is much higher though – kagi pays (iirc) double digit cents for each search, even before development costs, with the average user doing 700 searches a month. The costs are way higher.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
They can’t be spending $70 per user per month, let alone more than that, their pricing won’t make sense
SamBBMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Look it up
blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#ka…
It’s $.0125, so 1.25 cents not double digits like I thought. They also average 27 searches per day per user. So an average of 821.25 searches per user per month, meaning a cost of $10.27 per month.