Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 days agoProfessional hosting for business use is not hard, and fairly common even. But these make up a tiny fraction of YouTube videos, and they mostly post there to get organic growth and be suggested to people already watching YouTube.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Sure but it’s really common to see embedded youtube videos on storefronts, and if storefronts en masse abandoned it that’s one more piece of the market that youtube has lost.
They can’t keep locking it down and not lose market share, is my point. They’re enshittifying so much, so fast, and eventually there will be a tipping point.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 days ago
They can very much afford to lose a tiny amount of marketshare in exchange for increased ad and subscription revenue, is my point.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
“Massive increase” I think needs a source.
And they rely on the network effect to be the de facto standard video hoster. Every little bit of that network that they carve off while they’re enshittifying brings them closer to the critical point where people can afford to ditch them.
The logic that they can “afford” to lose marketshare is exactly what will make them keep losing it until people migrate en masse and they lose all of their marketshare.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Don’t have one. Pure speculation. Much like yours, I assume? Unless you have a source to the contrary?
Petter1@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Youtube is now big enough for not caring about the network effect.
Capitalism is just fucked 🤷🏻🏴☠️