I never thought YouTube’s business model was very sustainable. As the world economy goes down, so does the value of ads. Creators or consumers need to pay up for all the bandwidth and storage. The question is about what is a reasonable price. Are low tiers for $3/mo. possible along with premium 4k options or does everything need to be at more than that?

No, it isn’t, because of resilience. reddit as a gigantic instance would take out a lot, but the whole ecosystem of UI, clients etc. would have stayed identical. It would be a much softer switch. Shutdowns of large instances are an issue and lemmy’s user history is not portable (hopefully it will be). This has better future prospects.

There is a good chance users will flock to the biggest one and we won’t have the doubling issue.

I like it in general and think it has a chance to stay, however I feel it needs a bunch more work than Mastodon, which works close to a full release, except the oddity the Elk Alpha client doesn’t have a report button, but is better than the default.

The HDD cartel can only be stopped with an international crackdown, with raids and laws. They constantly do shady stuff as the coordinated SMR scam.

False information and claim that these are connected and not coincidental.