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DundasStation@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That would result in a mass exodus of their users and potentially result in their competitor popping up. Imagine the 2023 Reddit API controversy, but things going a lot worse for Reddit. Had Reddit taken a more extreme approach and made it entirely impossible to use any 3rd party apps instead of permitting workarounds for users to modify their apps, then they would’ve lost a lot of relevancy and would actually have suffered financially.

The smart way to do this would be to slowly implement anti-user practices over a long period of time, and let your corporate bootlickers gaslight the rest of the users into thinking that everything is fine and that they’re only overreacting.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Except who wants to be YouTube?

Twitch only does streaming. Meta and TikTok only do short form video. Spotify’s attempts to branch into video seem focused on podcasts and curated content. If YouTube were to erase from existence, I don’t see a competitor getting made.

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- DundasStation@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  I don’t see a competitor getting made.
  
  That’s the neat part. Why make it if you could just buy it? All it takes is for a rich authoritarian asshat with too much money and a desire to push an agenda.
  
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  - HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Kind of hard to buy something that doesn’t exist.
    
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atayavie@lemmy.wtf ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s almost exactly what couchsurfing.com did. The fact they survived is kinda legendary

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Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The greedy little pigboy didn’t do that because the IPO was coming up too fast

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