Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
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.
Youtube is now big enough for not caring about the network effect.
Capitalism is just fucked 🤷🏻🏴☠️
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Don’t have one. Pure speculation. Much like yours, I assume? Unless you have a source to the contrary?
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
This:
or this:
or this:
Yes, you’ve said that several times.
The fact that it exists is not evidence that it’s taking place here.
LOL no.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Oh so you want sources for literally every tiny claim with no evidence that you’ve engaged at all, but you’re sticking with “pure speculation” for your claims and you’re fine with that? Just checking.