Ricaz @ Ricaz @lemmy.ml

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This site quickly turned into reddit-style bandwagoning and downvoting stuff you disagree with, huh

They do it anyway though.

A full plane is still greener than a car with 1-2 passengers.

There are plenty of options for running Android distributions free of Google influence.

My point is that nothing is free. You can't have it both ways.

That's not what I'm saying, but these people choose to upload their content to YouTube specifically, so what's your point?

So don't buy a fucking iPhone or a Google Pixel or whatever, it's your choice.

Google controls 90% of the internet

Google doesn't control shit, and you're referring to the web, not the internet. Nobody forces you to use YouTube, Maps or their search engine. The websites you visit choose to incorporate Google analytics and ads, which you can easily block if you feel enslaved in that sense.

Nobody is forcing you to use their services.

I'm no Google fan, but it's borderline impossible to moderate a site of that size. It's a legal nightmare that cannot be solved by just humans. Read some articles about the human moderators of sites like YouTube and Facebook. Those people see some shit.

But yes, YouTube should definitely improve their escalation system, and pay more attention to refuted strikes. It sucks to see innocent creators get punished by a broken system.

I was never really on Digg, even though I was on the Internet since the early 00's, but yeah, everything dies eventually.

Can't think of anything aside from some obscure message boards that still exist today.

Reddit could suffer a 50% user drop and still make bank, but that won't happen within the decade.

Enthusiasts who want to earn money off the platform, yes.

Boost for Lemmy is coming though

It's not trying to piss you off, it's trying to make money, as it should. Do you have any idea how much money it costs to run the infrastructure behind YouTube? Neither do I, because it's unfathomable.

I pay for YouTube Premium along with 5 friends. It's $5 per month per person. Beats any streaming service by miles.

I do, however pirate all my movies (except for the occasional cinema visit) and TV shows.

It amazes me how entitled these Internet hippies are nowadays. You can't expect someone to provide such a huge service for free. If you don't like ads, pay for it. It's like $5 per month when you pay as a group..

Yeah, they should provide thousands of gigiabits of video streaming to everyone for free. It's our right!

No, I don't think there is a "not insignificant" number of people who would jump ship. We're literally just a few nerds who dislike the monolithic corporate structure and care about privacy. Stop pretending the whole world is in the same boat. It's turning into a weird tinfoil conspiracy.

It's fine that we like it here, and I'm glad that we have an alternative, but people need to wake up and realize this isn't some huge activist movement where we're pwning "the man". They don't give two shits about these dumbass protests. They will do whatever necessary to continue growing and earning money. So stop giving a shit about them, stop talking about reddit, and just be happy users have the power with Lemmy.

Stop kidding yourselves.. Reddit isn't dying. It's growing.

0.5% of users turned to Lemmy while the rest bent over.

YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though

Only played the first one which was pretty good. It's super big on character customization as it has a million race/class combinations. A bit more extreme than the rest