I’m sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.

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    We need better alternatives

    Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy

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      Video is nearly impossible to host in a sustainable way. The bandwidth usage is among the most expensive things you can host. The only way you’re getting something better than YouTube is if it’s tax funded somehow.

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        Public libraries should host the peoples internet. As a service, not to generate tax dollars, not to break even.

        Jumping from platform to platform is just delaying the enshitification.

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          Why not? Nationalize it and treat it like the infrastructure it is. Take the ISPs, too, while you’re at it.

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      We need better alternatives

      We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

      Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.