Uh oh, the hangover from the decade long 0% interest rates party seems to be hitting.
@Hoss I've wondered since 2010 how the fuck these companies continue to exist being black holes for revenue. A assumed it was just the CIA bankrolling them to broadcast propaganda since they all all say the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Does google's revenue cover for youtube's losses? Having the monopoly over anything is a pretty huge draw and something worth paying for regardless of a cia paycheck
@rher @Hoss At the very least, they would have pulled this ad injection stuff a lot sooner. Instead they lost billions per year in order to keep it as appealing as possible to everyone. I assume if the primary motive was profit they would do like X where they've largely shut it off to public consumption and just made it a paypig club.
I'm thinkin' the reason Google is shitting up YouTube has something to do with the fact that they ruined every other Google product that was actually profitable over the past ~5 years.
@Hoss @RustyCrab @rher Youtube losing it's #1 spot is potentially exciting because no matter what, Google has never gave a single shit about the users (and creators) and absolutely never will
@coolboymew @Hoss @RustyCrab @rher I think much like reddit, google thinks YouTube has hit this critical mass where its own brainwashed users inherently reject all viable alternatives. There's always something wrong with it like its only used by edgelords who are banned from their site, or some other excuse that doesn't hold up to reality
So they'll keep squeezing and the creators and viewers will just accept it, just like reddit
So they'll keep squeezing and the creators and viewers will just accept it, just like reddit
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@dielan @RustyCrab @rher @Hoss @coolboymew Odysee is probably the closest to a viable YouTube alternative because there are a few non-political Youtubers on there unlike Bitchute where it's 90% culture war and conspiracy shit. Though their future still seems uncertain after the company behind LBRY shut down. It seems like they are now switching to a different blockchain because of it.
@dielan @RustyCrab @rher @Hoss @coolboymew Crypto-integration is really unnecessary given that you can just post links to crypto wallets anywhere, unless they are talking about crypto ads or being able to access members-only content with it.
@xianc78 no the point as i understood it was that LBRY was addressing videos on a peer to peer network using a block chain, and odysee was just a user friendly webclient of that. So now that LBRY inc is gone and nobody is gonna maintain or use LBC, they want to replace it with some other token
But on twitter the people running odysee are also talking about making it such that anybody can host it, like Peertube. Idk
@RustyCrab @rher @Hoss @coolboymew
But on twitter the people running odysee are also talking about making it such that anybody can host it, like Peertube. Idk
@RustyCrab @rher @Hoss @coolboymew
@RustyCrab @rher @Hoss @coolboymew