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There is also an inherent kind of entitlement that people have. Putting the lack of visibility of privacy on the totem pole of priority, people like free things. When you start to charge them for an objectively worse service, you tend to piss off your user base.

Better than the burning garbage inferno that is xitter.

i can't wait to play as mike truk

That's not answering my question. Crap or not, it is an important consideration.

I agree that YouTube is Google monopoly, but I I've been wondering... They handle massive amounts of data. Would any other non-trillion dollar company be even capable of storing, processing, and presenting videos on the same scale, with the same quality, and with what is arguably very good latency world wide?

What could competitors do to beat Google without hemorrhaging their money just trying the manage the overhead?

My kind of class

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Well said, and well put. Sometimes it feels a little lonely on Lemmy and the fediverse, but I feel good contributing to a decentralized web.

I want this as a sticker for my laptop.

I'm gonna shill for FreshRSS and Feed Me. Been a fantastic combination so far.

Self hosting FreshRSS allows me to curate shit I care about. Even better, it's private aggregation. Sometimes though, I miss the conversation around these topics. For that, Lemmy exists.

So I was listening to a Bloomberg Tech Podcast about this. Someone from some random media group actually said "consumer demand for ad supported content over netflix's usual high production value dramas is up"

For some reason, that statement was both incredibly threatening and incredibly ominous

Let them eat cake.