▲ 445 ▼ Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net) submitted 3 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 181 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] alextastic@lemmy.world 40 points 3 years ago (2 children) What the hell is going on? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Matdan@lemmy.world 97 points 3 years ago (8 children) Everything is falling down: Google is dropping Reddit and Twitter from their searches. Twitter is throttling Tweets and you have to signin to view anything. Which would be crazy antivaxxer radicals, so not missing anything. No more free API use. YouTube is blocking you after 3 videos if you use an adblocker. Reddit has killed all 3rd party apps among API changes Now Gfycat is going, man that's like most of the sites I used since a kid. Imgur seems to be around still at least. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 16 child comments replies: [–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 years ago (1 child) Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 years ago Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days permalink fedilink source parent [–] indomara@lemmy.world 25 points 3 years ago (1 child) And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reev@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content. Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zzombiee2361@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur banned and purged NSFW images permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Captain_Nipples@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit permalink fedilink source parent [+] JamesFire@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's been a lot of talk about this, but I've yet to see it. It's either being A/B tested and not fully rolled out, or whatever way they're detecting adblock isn't catching me. There's plenty of pictures online though of people getting the message. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago (2 children) Who is YouTube’s competitor ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent [–] loomi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Facebook is looking might well run these days. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger permalink fedilink source parent [–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur seems to be around still at least. For now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Matdan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hanging on by a thread permalink fedilink source parent [–] RichardButt89@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Canuck1701@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kpw@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 years ago After 2008, interest rates were set to zero and basically stayed there for the next 15 years. What that meant was that investing your money in literally anything was better than putting it in a savings account or loaning it to the government (bonds). What thatmeant is that any company with a dream and a product found themselves swimming in piles and piles of venture capital fund funds. And all that money meant that customers were getting a lot of stuff at or below cost from companies that had lots of cash to spend, and no real concern about making it back. Now the free ride is over and everyone is trying to cash in, only to find that’s not as easy as they made it sound to their investors. Enshittification is a sexy concept and I understand why everyone has glommed on to it. Unfortunately, the interest rate explanation is the much more complete and correct one. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Matdan@lemmy.world 97 points 3 years ago (8 children) Everything is falling down: Google is dropping Reddit and Twitter from their searches. Twitter is throttling Tweets and you have to signin to view anything. Which would be crazy antivaxxer radicals, so not missing anything. No more free API use. YouTube is blocking you after 3 videos if you use an adblocker. Reddit has killed all 3rd party apps among API changes Now Gfycat is going, man that's like most of the sites I used since a kid. Imgur seems to be around still at least. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 16 child comments replies: [–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 years ago (1 child) Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 years ago Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days permalink fedilink source parent [–] indomara@lemmy.world 25 points 3 years ago (1 child) And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reev@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content. Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zzombiee2361@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur banned and purged NSFW images permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Captain_Nipples@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit permalink fedilink source parent [+] JamesFire@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's been a lot of talk about this, but I've yet to see it. It's either being A/B tested and not fully rolled out, or whatever way they're detecting adblock isn't catching me. There's plenty of pictures online though of people getting the message. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago (2 children) Who is YouTube’s competitor ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent [–] loomi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Facebook is looking might well run these days. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger permalink fedilink source parent [–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur seems to be around still at least. For now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Matdan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hanging on by a thread permalink fedilink source parent [–] RichardButt89@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Canuck1701@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kpw@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 years ago (1 child) Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 years ago Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 years ago Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days permalink fedilink source parent
[–] indomara@lemmy.world 25 points 3 years ago (1 child) And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reev@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content. Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content. Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent
[–] indomara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content. Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent
[–] amiuhle@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago Please don't start working at archive.org permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zzombiee2361@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur banned and purged NSFW images permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Captain_Nipples@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Captain_Nipples@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit permalink fedilink source parent
[+] JamesFire@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's been a lot of talk about this, but I've yet to see it. It's either being A/B tested and not fully rolled out, or whatever way they're detecting adblock isn't catching me. There's plenty of pictures online though of people getting the message. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago (2 children) Who is YouTube’s competitor ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's been a lot of talk about this, but I've yet to see it. It's either being A/B tested and not fully rolled out, or whatever way they're detecting adblock isn't catching me. There's plenty of pictures online though of people getting the message. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago (2 children) Who is YouTube’s competitor ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago (2 children) Who is YouTube’s competitor ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago Rumble. I mean, you didn't asked for a good competitor. There's also LBRY, but it's more niche permalink fedilink source parent
[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alternatives to YouTube include Vimeo and the fediverse's Peertube, but I am not sure they qualify as competitors. Actually, the peer-sharing nature of Peertube makes me wonder if it could handle a sudden surge of users better than the rest of the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] noodle@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Unless content creators get paid there's never gonna be a critical shift to a fediverse platform from YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok. Users may switch but they'll be straight back if there's no content. Personally, I think that's better. Let people have their favored platforms. Have accounts on several. Use them as much or as little as you want. Advertising might be a deal breaker for you, but some are willing to put up with it. Some are happy paying for premium. It doesn't stop federated platforms from existing. If anything, it helps deal with the volume of users. These closed platforms with VC money can barely afford to keep the lights on - self hosted servers can not handle that kind of traffic. Sadly, Twitter is similar to Youtube. It may not have as many ADU as other platforms but the news media is heavily dependent on it. You'd need essentially every significant US politician to migrate to a new platform to see a critical shift away from Twitter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago That's an extremely good point: youtube actually does pay out to creators in a way that most other sites do not. Sure, they will often supplement this income with kofi or patreon, but if that youtube income stream dries up, a lot of the youtubers will simply call it quits instead of migrating to other platforms. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago If YouTube does go entirely the route they are going, peertube may as well become a competitor. We need people to start downloading and storing YouTube videos to host on these servers. It just sucks, the legal hoops people will need it fly through... It's almost as if people are going to need to start moving to the darkweb as well. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] loomi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Facebook is looking might well run these days. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Imgur seems to be around still at least. For now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Matdan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago Hanging on by a thread permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RichardButt89@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Canuck1701@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Canuck1701@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 years ago After 2008, interest rates were set to zero and basically stayed there for the next 15 years. What that meant was that investing your money in literally anything was better than putting it in a savings account or loaning it to the government (bonds). What thatmeant is that any company with a dream and a product found themselves swimming in piles and piles of venture capital fund funds. And all that money meant that customers were getting a lot of stuff at or below cost from companies that had lots of cash to spend, and no real concern about making it back. Now the free ride is over and everyone is trying to cash in, only to find that’s not as easy as they made it sound to their investors. Enshittification is a sexy concept and I understand why everyone has glommed on to it. Unfortunately, the interest rate explanation is the much more complete and correct one. permalink fedilink source parent