At the scale youtube does things it doesn’t really cost them much. They actually have the servers, the bandwidth, often the power. It’s not like they get to sell a server if enough people leave. And they still get many other benefits of having you as a user (getting to profile you, getting to push propaganda, getting to sell your information, maybe you send videos to friends who don’t use adblock, maybe you buy merch from creators making creators happier on their platform).
On the other hand this enshittification is ruining their monopoly, other areas of business (if you don’t need youtube, maybe you don’t need a chromecast? If you don’t need a chromecast, would you buy pixel phone, that can only do chromecast if samsung can do hdmi?) and curing people who are addicted to the platform.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 months ago
True, but if enough people leave, then creators will start leaving as well, and that is something they do not want.
warm@kbin.earth 10 months ago
Sounds great in theory, but won't happen. The internet is too consolidated now for the majority of people to give a shit, there's people buying YouTube Premium because of all this. Look at reddit, barely a dent in it after all the fiascos, twitter is holding on too. People don't care.
misk@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Where will creators go to get those viewers back? TikTok?
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 months ago
They will go where the viewers go.
misk@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Where will you go?