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minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

We thought the same thing about Netflix with the sharing password bans. Yet they retained more profit than ever the next year.

Who’s to say if this is what will make Reddit end, or did they actually just got more successful after the end of 3rd party apps compared to the declaration of so many users back then?

Digital personal verification is just going to become a fact of life in the future for everyone born after about 2012. They will use online ID cards, biometrics, location metadata that is constantly uploaded by our devices, maybe even implanted RFID encrypted chips for account verification. Passwords are becoming outdated and outmoded for security as we speak here. 2FA is the minimum security for online today but that may soon become outmoded as well.

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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
LOL. No “we” didn’t. A few idiots did.

These large tech companies have e focus groups and can do extensive research on how their markets will react to these changes.

Any analysis on social media just doesn’t have access to that data.

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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I literally haven’t had a Netflix sub since that year and I sometimes miss the convenience of it even. Haven’t been very frequent on reddit in 2 years. Neither company is going to miss me though.

Soon it’ll just be piracy and the fediverse for me, and maybe I’ll be able to show my daughter how to download movies and shows, but I’m sure within within her lifetime, piracy will just become so unpopular that all the good sources of content die out. I do hope the fediverse will stay around though. It has a similar problem to piracy: It’s not that it’s hard, it’s more that the people making everything work get tired and it’s hard to convert people.

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MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s because Netfilx is basically a media powerhouse & kind of a monopoly.

& your average person doesn’t know how to effectively pirate

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