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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

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[-] jmcrookston@mastodon.social 3 points 10 months ago
[-] seindal@mastodon.social 3 points 10 months ago
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[-] RealJournalism@mastodon.social 2 points 10 months ago
[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I’m not worried about it. You don’t need YouTube in your life.

If it bothers you this much you may be spending entirely way too much time on your computer.

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[-] AubreyDeLosDestinos@101010.pl 1 points 10 months ago
[-] mcepl@floss.social 1 points 8 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Why I am still buying music to own.

[-] jeroen@secluded.ch 1 points 8 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf that is why @brewsterkahle created https://archive.org -- support them so we can keep an archive of important things, otherwise commercial companies will restrict and control the information in the future, and those who write the last are the real winners...

[-] mike@sauropods.win 1 points 8 months ago

@jeroen @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf @brewsterkahle And THAT Is why commercial companies want to destroy archive.org

[-] john@vyrse.social 1 points 8 months ago

YouTube as 'too big for ethics' and also 'too big to compete with' is terrifying AF.

Nothing can replace YT and it's success or failure is in the hands of one unscrupulous company.

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

[-] maxwainwright@toot.community 1 points 8 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology i think it already is unprofitable, just that they haven’t decided (how) to act upon that fact.

On the other hand, is hosting it all become more or less expensive over time? If server costs are getting lower faster than the amount of stuff people upload grows, they could well keep it just to know what every person online wants to watch (and show ads, I guess).

[-] bmaxv@noc.social 1 points 8 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

What, you don't have a personal archive of your youtube favorites?

Better start the backup now?

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

[-] bste@mstdn.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] DigitalTaoist@ieji.de 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology
Hear hear! That Do No Harm motto seems to have become increasingly flexible...

[-] timrichards@aus.social 1 points 8 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Needs to be nationalised; or more precisely, converted to a non-profit body.

[-] maiamaia@mastdn.social 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology and I have a vimeo account, and I keep "meaning to try" to use it....there's even good stuff on there! It's affordable if it's pay-to-view! But no....

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