• PlebsicleMcGee@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Gfycat had the excellent business model of hosting a load of high bandwidth content and not making any money from anyone

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You forgot the excellent idea of being highly integratable to the point end users don’t even know the gifs they’re seeing are from gfycat

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Really though. On Reddit at least, how often did you actually go to gfycat instead of just viewing on Reddit’s webpage or a third party app?