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Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

And who pays the creators? They are usually partly or mostly ad supported. At best they have a patreon/floatplane or other support platform.
They will simply not come over since there's no audience. No audience, no creator. No creator, no audience.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just like nobody would leave reddit for Lemmy since all the content is on reddit?

To be honest, I miss the times when people made videos because they wanted to make videos, not make money. I'm willing to forego quite a lot of YouTube content if that helps build a new paradigm for how the internet works. Would you?

[–] Muyal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's get real, most of the people stayed on reddit. Only a very small fraction tried lemmy and an even smaller fraction have completely stopped using reddit.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 2 years ago

That's OK, I stopped using reddit completely almost a decade ago. I'm happier with a small group of nice people than with a large group of unpleasant people.

A lot of people seen to focus on profitability and maximum exposure as the goal. More and more people don't think like that anymore.

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