kent_eh

What I want though is memory prices to go back down here.

A price war might lead in that direction.

Nothing a import ban can't fix.

Just because the US bans something, that doesn't stop the rest of the world from buying.

I suspect Chinese company will be quite happy to just flood the market with cheaply priced (relatively speaking) products and just get everyone's money.

And will still be able to make a very healthy profit by doing that.

The quest for "max_profit" is not (and never has been) sustainable.

I'm not sure what would stop them from charging whatever they can

Undercutting the competition to gain market share is a time tested business strategy.

Question: what value do self driving taxis add to regular taxis?

Additional profit for the owners.

Paying drivers cuts into the profits.

Nebula tightly currates which creators they accept onto their platform. Nobody who doesn't already have a long track record of creating and publishing quality videos is going to be accepted.

Which is good for viewers - less slop to wade through. But it's hard for creators to break into.

There is peertube as well, but it lacks monetization

It also lacks an audience at any sort of scale.

I publish on both YouTube and peertube. 3-4000 views on youtube, 10-30 on peertube.

Also published on odysee for a while, with similarly 2 digit views.

You can set up tipping links on youtube on day one as well.

And it has a much bigger pool of potential viewers.

The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours

Slop doesn't get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.

I’m honestly surprised they don’t charge for cloud storage for YouTube.

That's more how Vimeo works. The creators pay a monthly fee (for uploads over a very small threshold of storage) and have the option to PPV paywall their videos.

Small creators cost youtube more than they earn.

Youtube ads are sold by auction, and there is very little bidding interest in small channels with small audiences. The advertisers want as many eyeballs as possible.

But a small channel's videos cost youtube the same amount to store as a big channel's videos.

What is the best social media platform for niche content creators?

Like it or not, youtube still has the biggest audience and the best discovery algorithm (even with it's flaws).

And, even with this latest change, still pays better than other platforms.