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minus-squarevala@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 hours agoWhat people don’t seem to get is that these platforms don’t have any secret sauce. Tiktok could be cloned by a team of students in a few weeks. The platform isn’t actually valuable. It’s the user base.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoHosting video is hard. You’d need a large team of sysadmins, and they would make a lot of mistakes before it was stable. The platform is valuable. But, yes, everyone knows the most valuable asset is the userbase.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoDon’t things like Media Goblin already host video?
What people don’t seem to get is that these platforms don’t have any secret sauce. Tiktok could be cloned by a team of students in a few weeks.
The platform isn’t actually valuable. It’s the user base.
Hosting video is hard. You’d need a large team of sysadmins, and they would make a lot of mistakes before it was stable.
The platform is valuable. But, yes, everyone knows the most valuable asset is the userbase.
Don’t things like Media Goblin already host video?