eskimofry @ eskimofry @lemmy.world

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Speaks volumes to the need for diversifying critical infra.

Just because it exists doesn't mean you should use it? You sound like a horny hamster.

Because we called you racist despite your skin colour?

Have some spine though. Call out a spade for a spade.

Edit: not directed at your comment. Only downvoters.

Real ignorant of you to not consider that SA has been bombing these rebels for decades and that didn't stop them blowing up SA oil infra. Only thing that worked was diplomacy

Full mask off moment eh?

to get the benefit of the doubt on unpopular decisions. Same thing with hiding thumbs down counter from videos.

If they want to, they can go 100% paywalled. But I guess people like to conveniently forget that YouTube wants to double-dip.

only corporate apologists.

It's YouTube's fault for setting the wrong expectations when they benefited from wild growth and success by being free all these years. I dare they go 100% paywalled. I know they won't. Otherwise they can't double dip on both premium and advertiser money. Even if they manage to go 100% paywall, it's inevitable that they will start introducing adverts to paying customers as well.

They used the "You" as in the people, during their growth years to build their platform. Now they are going against the people since they no longer need us.

The day they go 100% paywalled, is the day their dominance ends. They will never do this because, contrary to the corporate dickriders in this thread they rely on bait and switch tactics to draw the crowd in the first place.

Privacy and Piracy go hand in hand, don't you think?

It's hilarious watching all the corporate apologists claiming stuff didn't exist before corporations came in and stole all the credit for work they didn't do in the first place.

Curiously, that would mean a peer-tube network of server instances for which YouTube becomes a frontend.

Let me convince you otherwise:

1. Who set that expectation in the first place? Don't all cut-throat corps undercut the previous established companies and gained a lot of market share by being "loss leaders"?
2. Do you think YouTube would dare to go completely Pay only?
3. Lack of competition is not an excuse to double dip on both customer data and advertisements.
4. People who say that we need to pay for server costs should consider that streaming services are now asking for money but also introducing adverts. The money is too lucrative for them to leave on the table.
5. Everybody is happy to pay when there's 1 service or 2 services that give them everything for a nominal fee. Cases in point: Netflix, Steam.
6. A lot of people pay for twitch because it's the only platform they care about. Paying for A platform doesn't mean we will pay for ALL platforms.

Not really. We believe in what we believe. You're the goblin who sticks on to consistency.

Piracy is a service problem. If you want it to disappear, corporate greed got to disappear.

That's like saying everyone should let people enjoy their kinks and you come in and say "aha, then pedophilia is allowed, ya?

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." His point was that only small-minded men refused to rethink their prior beliefs.

Man i envy your bubble. You haven't met some truly dumb people.