• quarrk [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Good idea. Video is famously cheap to host

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    He's still trying to make his stupid everything website.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      He's trying to make a copy of Wechat. That app does do everything. From payments to apps to chat to social media to car rental to virtual museum touring.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        :xibe-check: perfect for nationalization... keep centralizing it, capitalist dogs

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Oh yeah you know that thing that nobody can figure out how to make profitable, not even the company with an effective monopoly on non-pornographic video content? let's pivot to that :galaxy-brain:

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Are you talking about YouTube? YouTube is pretty profitable nowadays

  • innocentlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Umm, why would I watch a video that takes up time when I could simply read a few sentences and move on? Never understood the trend.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the bourgeoisie is preparing the proletariat for a forced decline in literacy because mass education is a threat to capitalism

      :trade-offer: trade offer: you get endless attention-span-lowering entertainment, and i get an endless source of cheap and unquestioning workers

      • daisy
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        2 years ago

        Brave New World was not supposed to be a how-to manual.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          on the contrary, dystopian fictions are always interpreted as cautionary tales by the working class, but as instruction manuals by the ruling class. Class standpoint is essential to how one processes information.

          • Rom [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Brain likes when colors and sounds go whoosh, and it's really easy to get someone into a dopamine spiral and feed them ads compared to text.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Video is a terrible format unless you're watching nature videos. CMV you can't

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Everyone wants to duplicate TikTok's success. I'm not quite sure what its special sauce is that makes it so much more popular than rivals, but no one else can catch up.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    wait didn't twitter just have a bunch of technical problems hosting audio for Rob DeSantis' wet fart announcement

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Video, the thing is twitter is objectively the most dogshit at out of every platform and which is quite possibly the most expensive sort of content to host and distribute in general.

  • buh [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The liveleak revivial nobody asked for

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Facebook faked a lot of video views on their platform, so get ready for even fakier view counts.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Even more appropriate when you consider how much Hasan is screaming at the Twitter website for not being able to play video

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah that'll make those video business investor commerce businesses fully business that Twitter is a commerce business video commerce business.

  • prismaTK
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    1 year ago

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