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Project for people leaving Google Maps. (feddit.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Openstreetmaps has 8.75% of the contributors Google Maps has.

Organic Maps has 1% the user base Google Maps has.

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  • [–] [S] 121 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The same can be said about Lemmy and Reddit, but look where we are.

    We need to support open-source projects and stop being simps for bad companies like Google.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    The difficulty is asking people to get started with this. People want to get to work/navigate as quickly as possible to where they need to be, they don't want to be figuring it out. Social media can be janky and you'll be patient, but if you're late for something because you're struggling to adjust to an app you're more likely to go back to Google/Apple Maps

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Agreed! I got one for that too:

    Lemmy vs Reddit

    Monthly Users (0.004%) 44k vs 1.2b

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    So? Every platform starts at 0%.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I think the point is 8× more contributions

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This is very ironic coming from someone using Lemmy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I'm confused. Say more? Whats ironic?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lemmy is getting most of its contributions from people that migrated from Reddit. Reddit had (and has) tons of more content people still came here looking for a better alternative.

    Hopefully you can now see the similarity.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I see the similarity, what do you mean by irony though?

    I was pointing out that though the numbers are small (your point) OP was saying Organic maps had 8x contributors, so Im just confused how thats ironic... when the point is that open source users contribute more than non-open source users?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    internet explorer, yahoo mail, myspace, icq... things change. unfortunately it's mostly due to a huge company having the resources to promote their product to convince people to migrate but still. people can leave old giants.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Proton is 5.5% the size of G-mail. 100m vs 1.8b.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Take a definition of ACTIVE contributors, because both projects have a lot of inactive contributors that only registered and didn't do anything but just one update and left, if any.

    Google is known for dropping projects that they can't monetize enough. Maps' been around for a while, but it can always just disappear for public use. Or decide that you need a Google account too use it and that's a privacy nightmare. We need alternatives, but in this case, we need free and open source alternatives. We can't put all the eggs in the same basket.

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