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  • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I guess it’s just impossible to make these types of large media storage sites profitable. The business model itself is inherently unprofitable despite there being a need for these sites. Like youtube will never bring a cent back to google, but they keep running it because it locks people into their ecosystem for data harvesting.

    Could also be that snap bought gfycat just to kill it.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    That’s gonna result in a massive amount of dead links. The internet really is dying…

    • varjen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.

      • Seasons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m 100% down to go back to Wild West.

        The feeling and freedom of playing runescape on the early 2000s unfiltered internet was something I’ve missed. Maybe it’s coming back.