• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Who is going to be competing for the eyeballs of people who militantly refuse to watch ads? I’d love to see YouTube have competition, but I don’t think the demographic here is particularly valuable to anyone.

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      1 year ago

      Same with lemmy. Who cares about us? Seems to be working somewhat tho.

      Issue with videohosting is filesizes, bandwiths, and the gigantic archive.

      That’s why I said surprising competition: no, it wouldn’t be from a big typical tech company.

      I think you’re wrong on the value of the demographic: there are definitely ways, sectors etc where a small group of relatively tech savvy, ad-hating, very critical, neckbearded, moob carrying people is more valuable than a large mob of typical yay-saying consumers. I’ld even say it’s the kind of niche demographic that made reddit big in the first place.