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• Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m not sure how the service could be sustainable.

  Bold of you to assume any of us give a shit about keeping Alphabet’s operations sustainable for them.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure but realistically services need money to run sites.

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    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, and for all I care, they can run out (though they won’t) and their sites can shut down.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Google has plenty of money. That’s the way I see it.

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  • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Afaik, business units are individual. Their products don’t finance each other.

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    • boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And the user experience I should expect depends on their stupid hierarchy for reasons I should care about, I’m sure, but still I find myself not. Choosing to enshittify is a choice. Choosing a business model that depends on coercion into an ecosystem that will become enshittified after accumulating a critical mass is another, even more evil choice. Doing it while those cheering loudest are the ones being fucked hardest (I mean, there’s still a “certain line” between how badly “certain groups” are discriminated against, but let’s keep things broad here because we all know the in-group is going to shrink… you know the poem, those that don’t speak up and all that) is yet another choice and one that I’m not willing to join. Doing it while playing monopolistic games arguably even more strongly than Microsoft did when it got hit with a Nynex-level antitrust suit is a step even further down the fuck-me-brick road. The list goes on. Have you met Android??? Google’s motto used to be Don’t Be Evil. Yeah, I’m at least that old. Fight me.

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      • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dude, if you dislike it that much you could just like… not use it?

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    • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah they are and they need to act like seperate businesses to each other. But Google is just going to loan YouTube money when it needs to. Google is basically playing the game with infinite money.

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• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not. Why do you want it to be? It’s one of the most enduring social media monopolies, and it should be brought down. The more they lose revenue, the more they are forced to squeeze, the more they enshittify, the more people are pushed to make and use alternatives, and the stronger those alternatives get.

  Honestly once youtube’s network can be usurped by something like peertube, I think that might be the ballgame for centralised social media. It is the hardest one to topple because of bandwidth costs, which means once it goes the case for needing a corporation to fund our networks kind of collapses with it.

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