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   Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline: (horse@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 21:51:52 JST Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline:

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   @FeralRobots @mainframed767 @Sempf

   Pivot to video they said.
   It will make money they said.

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 21:51:53 JST FeralRobots

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     @mainframed767 @Sempf
     Weirdly, they were well on their way to irrelevance when they did that. They produced a bunch of streaming video shows around then. I remember a lot of folks being super puzzled about the business model.

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     Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (mainframed767@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 21:51:54 JST Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​

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     • Bill

     @Sempf remember when Yahoo made a season of community?

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     Bill (sempf@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 21:51:55 JST Bill

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     @mainframed767 "But but big tech firms never die, they last forever! Look at Alta Vista, and Sun, and MySpace, and ... oh wait."

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     Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (mainframed767@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 21:51:56 JST Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​

     Honestly, I can't wait for Google/YouTube to go the way of Yahoo and just become a footnote in time as a subsidiary of AOL.