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The "solution" is choosing your priorities and being willing to make sacrifices, which, in my experience, many people are not willing to do. "I don't want to b
by sequoia 7y ago
The "solution" is choosing your priorities and being willing to make sacrifices, which, in my experience, many people are not willing to do.
"I don't want to be on a censorious megacorporate platform." Great! You can do this, you'll just have to be on the #2 platform rather than the #1 platform, and there won't be as many "free" tools & services. "What?? How can you suggest I abandon the #1 platform? I need all those free tools and services + the exposure of the #1 platform!" :shrug: OK, in that case "free tools and services" & "exposure" are higher priorities to you than user respect, privacy, free expression etc., and you're making the right choice to stay on youtube.
It feels a lot like people want to have their cake and eat it too.
Our (as users) only negotiating leverage with a provider like google is willingness to leave their platforms. If you're are not willing to do that, all this hand-wringing and complaining is just wasted breath as google has ~0 incentive to take your complaints seriously.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoI think the truth here is that saying "Just use another platform" isn't taking into account reality. Let's say for a moment that Google isn't evil (hypothetical, I know) and that you want a Facebook alternative. Google themselves tried to make one - and failed spectacularly. If Google can't make a Facebook alternative, what chance does anyone else have? In what way does a #2 platform ever even approach Facebook while FB can just purchase them or otherwise stop them before a critical mass of users switch? I'm very free market, but this is a clear monopoly and social media sites seemingly requires new rules that didn't exist for telecoms.
- ajna91 7y agoI wonder if all this online complaining is worse than useless, but actually counter-productive by acting as a release valve for real grievances.