@duncesplayed@kalleboo tbh most of YTs I know either run sponsor ads, or have Patreon/paid for community. It is already slowly moving away from ads system in YT, which simply does not work.
@hampter@noodlejetski@Nankeru I think it is just a failure of your imagination...corpos think in terms of "why have only some of money, if we can have all the money". Not sure pushing YT Premium subs and being almost torturous obsessive with scam ads indicate they somehow cool with sinking money in YT pit.
@hampter@noodlejetski@Nankerucough TikTok cough
In all seriousness, Google does not know what to do with YT. It is very hard to monetize. They tried to do whole TV thing, which fell flat on it's face. it keeps being huge money sink, and moderation is nightmare and algorithms seems to fucking up constantly.
They can't get rid of it, because it is huge, but it is not fire sure profit.
@Powderhorn as far as I have seen, Fediverse somehow tracks thread without mentions. So for me it is up to someone's preference :) All Mastodon clients I use prefix messages with mentions of persons I reply to, but they don't have to.
@Powderhorn yeah, there is lot of sort of self-justification happening there in a nutshell.
It is not that they are unique with this. Overall humanity still learns how to deal with their own quirks.
@Powderhorn lot of tech billionaires live in wishful thinking world where they disrupt and void real world - including legal - consequences. They usually come crashing down. It is just surprising that big swaths of media absolutely never learn from this.
@rimlogger@tango_octogono there is good argument to be made that these "unified services" were created to monetize them in first place.
Said that, federation as a concept of new era of social networking is good foundation. Hope it sticks and we work out quirks and people learn how to use it.
@Winterismyseason@Powderhorn in lot of cases disclaimers are not legally binding and cannot absolute ChatGPT from legal troubles. Heck, even majority of EULAs are legal fluff.
@setsneedtofeed@Kichae so much this. I nutshell, it is important to attract as many people as possible that find Fediverse as idea attractive in first place. There is no point of having millions who do not care about platform.
@DJDarren@Lobstronomosity tech capabilities has never been an issue - there is HTC 4k set which I would love to buy one day, and 90% of GPUs can't fully utilize it anyway.
@DJDarren@Lobstronomosity Oculus has proven that hardware is one thing, but apps is another. And developing and prototyping VR apps is hard, long and expensive. Market is too small for many devs to get super interested in.
@SevenSwell@strudel6242 overall it is just very strange - I have Quest 2, Beat Saber is just killer app, but it does not have that much DLC. There are good apps there and here, but still majority of usage is on PC.
It is doing better than I thought it would as niche though. It is also well designed product overall, best thing that came out of all Metaverse fiasco.