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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by bognition on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:21PM (#16673222)
> You can't achieve that scale, feature-set and UX quality without a lot of engineering manpower.

I'm not sure thats true. At the time of their acquisitions Instagram had 13 employees and WhatsApp had 55. Both of those are extremely small when compared to the size of Facebook. And given the size of the acquisition price tags i'd wager facebook felt like both were existential threats.

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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by tsunamifury on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:45PM (#16673338)
Both raised millions before being acquired, and likely would need to raise 100s of millions to start today. Facebooks has reached both network effect and economy of scale which is very hard to unseat.
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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by phoneboy on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:06PM (#16674253)
Not really a problem though is it. Compare with DASHs DAO that spend around 30M$ a year on improving and building the system.
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