Typically the encouraged participation of Twitch and YouTube is a mechanism to strengthen para-social relationships people make with "content creators" which I

Typically the encouraged participation of Twitch and YouTube is a mechanism to strengthen para-social relationships people make with "content creators" which I don't think is a good thing, if more and more people aren't making friends and building communities around them in favour of their "friends" and "communities" online then they're going to continue being at the mercy of the established order (whether that be Governments or Corporations) as there's no real unity in an online collective and there's no meaningful action a disparate group of people can do to effect change in a single place. On your publishing point it seems to me we're just abandoning quality control and rigour under the guise of begrudging gatekeeping (sometimes the gate does need to guarded) and whilst I agree that the subjectivity of art means more people being able to make and share music is probably a good thing (you can't definitively say there's "bad music") the same can't be said for information. Perhaps I'm too cynical but a large aspect of the past 20 years in software proliferation I don't like is the idea that we should just build things consequences be damned (Mark Zuckerburg especially has this belief) as we're never then taking the time to properly reflect on if there's a way to prevent harm up front or if the harm produced can't be mitigated maybe we shouldn't build these things in the first place. A rhetorical but interesting question is how many relationships do we think were ruined by Facebook? How much dysmorphia and self-loathing caused by Instagram?* How much hate spread by YouTube and Twitter? *(These two I find particularly interesting as we weren't even part way through uncovering the ill effects of unrealistic beauty standards set by Hollywood and the advertising industry over the last 50 years before along came these websites/apps whose solution was to allow you to airbrush and manipulate your own life and set your own unrealistic standards. There's now a generation and more to come who have just grown up with this being the way the world is).