[Nemo_bis]

You don't need 80k employees to self-host. The Wikimedia Foundation does it with a team of few dozens SREs.

[jldugger]

And just think how much more profitiable they'd be if they scaled up

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[qwe----3]

You joke but they fund raise like they love money - lying to their users about needing donations...

[Nemo_bis]

It depends on what your priors are for what's "needed". If you think 80k employees are needed to do what the Wikimedia Foundation does, their fundraising is way too humble. :-)