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[deleted] t1_j6041c5 wrote

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actvdecay t1_j61a324 wrote

Right. Library of what exactly?

Name general categories… or what would be the backbone of Organization- cats?

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Putoigituresse t1_j61nqnd wrote

I’m actually crazy impressed by how low Reddit is on that list. I have a hard time believing library of the congress has more text than all of Reddit, Twitter, youtube, and Wikipedia combined

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Dyzerio t1_j62392s wrote

Doesn't a lot of classified stuff get put in the library of Congress? 100 page long reports could fluff that up but also not exactly sure what the units are

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rose1983 t1_j6376zx wrote

Wikipedia is largely a directory with (mostly) very good summaries.

For a lot of Wikipedia articles there are hundreds of books written on the subject, so I can believe that.

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vtTownie t1_j63ajxn wrote

Ya idk how this stuff was sourced (no link so I’m not even gonna bother) but reddit had 303m posts in 2020 and the LOC only has 175m cataloged items

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CeeMX t1_j6528wz wrote

Much likely count of videos compared to the books in the library, which is a weird metric, as books contain much more content than a video and on the other hand the amount of data would put YouTube on rank 1 by far

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tomiwa1a t1_j69prfr wrote

Good point, here’s we got this information.

  1. We calculated the number of hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute from 2007-2022 source: statista
  2. We found how many words are spoken per hour of human conversation source: virtualspeech
  3. We calculated the number of words in the average book source: jericho writers

Then we did some calcualations with those numbers to arrive at 99,338,400 books on Youtube

You can see the details of those calculations here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UbekWhTLJKQj6ZLipg1R269CQ8g0ACDbzPRDFN14inc/edit#gid=52223737

Edit: I also have a question about the last thing you said > there’s so much more content than that though

What other content is there?

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