• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    To be fair, one thing often overlooked is these things don’t run in rainbows and unicorn dust. Especially a video platform. $$. To expect it completely free is kind of crazy.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      I’d be willing to devote taxes to social media without ads and featuring a non-malevolent algorithm. If it allowed people to communicate with each other like Twitter or Facebook, it would be a service to the benefit of the public.

      Once upon a time, at least here in the states, we believed in a government that served the public good.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pub
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      5 days ago

      Reminder that it took nearly 10 years for YouTube to start making profit. At some point the platform was burning around billion dollars per year.