• T156@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    People also forget that YouTube ran at a loss for well over a decade.

    And any new start up would have to compete with YouTube and their massive audience, and all the other sites. There’s a reason that Vimeo never made quite the same height, for example.

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      14 days ago

      Floatplane is feeling that. At small scale, they’re really a poor value proposition.