this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
836 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

59534 readers
3199 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.