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I've never been this aggressive in a HN comment: change the fucking title. This is not a showcase for a YouTube alternative. It's a fucking advertisement for a

I've never been this aggressive in a HN comment: change the fucking title. This is not a showcase for a YouTube alternative. It's a fucking advertisement for a service that has nothing to do with YouTube-like services. It's AOL keywords with a bidding system - for any site or service. This kind of clickbait bullshit, listing a well-known product like "YouTube" for the sole purpose of gaining more traction, is unacceptable. HN has lately been falling into the same trap that killed Slashdot - falsely labelled posts, providing clickbait views for someone's startup that would never make the front page if the title matched the content of the submission.

user101010 10y ago
The submission definitely mentions YouTube and Netflix as services it could replace, as well as bemoaning the centralized nature of many content platforms. I think the title is perfectly accurate.
- okket 10y ago
  > I think the title is perfectly accurate. No. A cranked up, ludicrous vision of the future is not a valid base for an accurate title. The bidding system has nothing to do with YouTube. The only reason why the developers are mentioning YouTube is getting attention, SEO. The worst thing about these types of venture capital backed pipe dreams is, that they give sane decentralisation ideas, like IPFS, a bad name :(
  - user101010 10y ago
    I disagree, but whatever. If anything, this got me extremely interested in what these kinds of decentralized systems can be put to use for. Now I get to look up IPFS, so thank you. :)
EdSharkey 10y ago
I wouldn't have cussed, but I totally agree with you. AOL keywords is spot on here, the whole concept is rubbish.