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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.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

They can’t keep locking it down and not lose market share, is my point

They can very much afford to lose a tiny amount of marketshare in exchange for increased ad and subscription revenue, is my point.

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- Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    “Massive increase” I think needs a source.
    
    Don’t have one. Pure speculation. Much like yours, I assume? Unless you have a source to the contrary?
    
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    Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Source for what? The network effect? I gave you a link, you can read.
    
    And youtube is enshittifying.
    
    These are both well-established effects. My sourcing is finished now.
    
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  - Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Youtube is now big enough for not caring about the network effect.
    
    Start companies
    
    make a free product with network effect
    
    gain a lot of users
    
    now that you have your user base, user growth is not as relevant anymore and therefore network effect is not needed anymore
    
    enshitificate for more ad revenue, more tracking and direct subscriptions
    
    profit (finally after decades)
    
    Capitalism is just fucked 🤷🏻🏴‍☠️
    
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    Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What? No, the network effect is why they have a dominant position. The network effect comes from their user base.
    
    The way you wrote that shows you don’t understand the principle at all.
    
    I could explain further but you’d have to express interest.
    
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