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There’s a problem when they have a sort of diagonal integration into the industry, as they’re kind of pulling up the ropes from competition while monetizing the product. It reeks of looming antitrust.

If I want to distribute billions of videos to billions of people on my own site, that’d be great, but my options are basically to pay Google, Amazon, or Microsoft for help.

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neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m happy to talk about antitrust and breaking up conglomerates. But that needs to be a big conversation across many industries not just “Google bad, grrr”.

If you’re referencing WEI, btw, it is one of the topics people have been most misled about. Can link you to my Mastodon thread where I break down all the misunderstanding if you’d like

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- postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s no overarching anti-trust conversation to be had because there’s currently no anti-trust cases, if there ever will be. The comments under each individual instance of it being required is the “big conversation”. As a content aggregation site (mainly news) the only place it could realistically occur is under some wishful thinking self-post nobody would care about.
  
  I also saw people pine for trust busting just the other day under some Amazon article, there’s simply nowhere else to post about it at the moment.
  
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  - neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I meant to say that I’m much more inclined to have conversations with people about the need for stricter antitrust laws and enforcement than I am about a single subsidiary of a multinational corp. protecting their revenue stream
    
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Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t understand this comment at all. Hosting your own video is actually super easy. HTML5 video is as simple as HTML5 images. It’s just the cost factor.

You can do it all without the cloud as well, you just have to actually go buy the servers or rent them from traditional virtual private server hosts. Not everyone has gone to the cloud.

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- foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes please recreate YouTube with html5 And make sure a billion users can access billions of videos at all times with your static HTML site.
  
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  - Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You said on your own site. The fact that YouTube exists and makes that easier isn’t the argument against YouTube you think it is…
    
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