> YouTube's audience doesn't care about anything at decentralized You're speaking for quite a huge number of people about their preferences vs. something that

> YouTube's audience doesn't care about anything at decentralized You're speaking for quite a huge number of people about their preferences vs. something that does not exist. "Content creators" didn't care about the internet, until they did. For that matter, apparently I'm not a member of the "audience", either. Maybe you're right. I'd need to see some argument other than "because I think so", and look at these failures[1], though. As far as bald assertions, here's mine: Video consumers on average don't know what the word "federated" means in the context of networked services. Nor do they care. They don't know that email is federated. They know they hit "send", and their words pop up in grandma's inbox. Users don't care about the tech under the hood. They want the payloff. If the economics of federated content networks work, they will take off once someone figures out the proper feature set, placement and happens into a bit of luck. If not, we're doomed to sharecropping on FaceGoogazon and this whole conversation is pointless. [1] I have here a list of social network failures that prove nobody wants to use social networks. QED.