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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

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

  • Korkki@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

  • thenicnet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

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

    edit: spelling

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        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
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          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)”.