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@[email protected] This thought might help you and me (https://lethallava.land/notes/9gp5hypoklkeflav ; [ (lethallava.land)
 

@[email protected] This thought might help you and me (https://lethallava.land/notes/9gp5hypoklkeflav; https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105737744499263260) feel good about ourselves, but we still suffer some harm by being part of a society that grew dependent on Youtube. Might not seem fair, but there's a problem here and it impacts us.

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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube. in c/[email protected]
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@[email protected] Minor correction: "becomes unprofitable" should be "becomes insufficiently lucrative".

Furthermore, how much revenue Google needs to make from each of its properties including Youtube keeps going up quarter after quarter thanks to insatiable shareholder appetite.

It's like sending a citizen each day to the nearby dragon to get it to leave you alone, but over time the price keeps going up.

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