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In general, when we use someone's platform to publish, we give up control. People continually rediscover this fact. If you want more control, publish on a stand

• serf 5y ago
  >In general, when we use someone's platform to publish, we give up control. People continually rediscover this fact. In broad strokes : you're right. For the sake of a bit more nuance, i'd like to add that 'the control' isn't just given up by the user. 'The control' is promised by providers, and then slowly dwindled until some threshold is met where users are lost to competitors. YouTube became popular because it gave creators just enough independence, while handling the technical stuff for them. Now that the technical part is becoming increasingly easy to deal with, it stands to reason that YouTube must become more flexible, or lose market share. Will G/YT be flexible enough to keep everyone happy enough to exist within their walled garden? Personally, I don't think so -- and people like the parent article are proving that point by packing up and taking their data elsewhere. Discoverability is becoming less and less of an issue due to the pervasiveness of many different types and styles of social media; IMO that's YT's big advantage and I feel with anti-creator stuff like this stuff, along with YTs recommender being one of the biggest industry in-jokes on the planet -- they really squandered that advantage.