Here: How We Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform with $100,000

Its a little braggy, but justified I guess.

There’s no way this profit all comes from YouTube

Personally, I doubt YouTube bring in any net profit. In fact, I think wendover just did a video about how expensive/hard it was getting Nebula up an running that that is at a fraction of the scale of YouTube.

Look, its hard defending Alphabet here, but things will enshittify if they don’t have a clear and sustainable funding stream.

Even these Fediverse instances leave me with the question of how will they be paid for. Donations won’t scale and any sort of monetization is…resisted.

A fine place for a first comment: they gotta pay for the videos somehow and hardly anyone will pay for premium.

The fact that no one who knows about ad-blockers will realistically turn it off for youtube kinda drives them into a corner right?