Youtube is far too expensive for anyone to try and run a competitor to. I don’t think we’ll ever see a replacement.
Google is still losing money on it, and might never make it profitable. There’s a real risk that Youtube just dies on its own and nothing replaces it.
@IsThisLemmyOpen Reddit is not dead, yet.
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Neither is Digg. Or myspace. Or many of dozens of services that used to be popular and fell into irrelevance.
Lemmy is irrelevant compared to Reddit. Completely and utterly. There’s what, a single medium-sized subreddit over all instances here?
But Reddit is hardly irrelevant. they are still MASSIVE compared to those examples
Reddit is far from dead. Most of the subs I care about are back.
Reddit is dead?
It depends on how long people will desire long form video content. Maybe 15 years?
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