Whelp, here we go again
What’s with every big tech company trying to destroy their userbase this year?
they think they have us sufficiently cornered on centralized sites, they may be right.
Especially with video. Reddit was easy-ish to leave – I haven’t left entirely – since it’s just a link aggregator and glorified forums. That’s nothing new to the Internet. And Twitter was easy to replace with Mastodon.
But hosting video? That’s a tough one to replicate. I know there are some other platforms out there, but I can’t imagine any could really take on YouTube, due to space and bandwidth considerations.
So yeah, I think YouTube has us all by the balls. And they know it.
They are right, they have deep enough pockets to pay people to run a proper analysis on the effects of locking stuff down. Even if they lose you, they don’t care, you produced $0 for them anyway. Where are you gonna watch stuff anyway? Vimeo? It’s a captured marker and they will run it as they like.
