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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That’s gonna result in a massive amount of dead links. The internet really is dying…

    • varjen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.

      • Seasons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m 100% down to go back to Wild West.

        The feeling and freedom of playing runescape on the early 2000s unfiltered internet was something I’ve missed. Maybe it’s coming back.

  • thenicnet@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Man, I really feel like the internet is under a major shake up at the moment. Feels weird.

    edit: spelling

      • reflex@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        Feels weird.

        My man, I know there’s gotta be other schadenfreudes, schadenfreudians? out there like me who are loving it tho.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          Schadenfreudler /ˈʃɑː.dɘnˌfrɔ͜ɪd̥.lɘr/

          If you don’t know how to read IPA, roughly “SHAAH-then-FROYD-ler”

          Btw: I just constructed this word based on my native speaker intuition. I doubt that you can find it in a dictionary, because it’s not something one would force into a single word. A more natural way to say what you mean would be “Leute, die (hier) (auch) Schadenfreude empfinden”, which translates to “people who (also) feel Schadenfreude (here)”.

  • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I guess it’s just impossible to make these types of large media storage sites profitable. The business model itself is inherently unprofitable despite there being a need for these sites. Like youtube will never bring a cent back to google, but they keep running it because it locks people into their ecosystem for data harvesting.

    Could also be that snap bought gfycat just to kill it.

    • dam5s@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Youtube is definitely bringing back a profit to Google. Probably not huge, but definitely far from 0% return.

      Now they did have to shove way more ads in there to make it happen.

      Having an acceptable ratio between ads and a big media storage seems pretty much impossible, unless subscription based which most people can’t really afford.