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dlrht@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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SamBBMe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They can’t be spending $70 per user per month, let alone more than that, their pricing won’t make sense
  
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  - SamBBMe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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    SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, the number just stood out as too high to me
    
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