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If you have a monopoly and your spy platform is essentially infrastructure then yes, of course it is.

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• MiguelX413 5y ago
  Thank god there's 20 alternatives to YouTube then. Daily reminder to use Peertube and that being able to reach people, centralization, and ad monetization are incompatible with freedom. Use Peertube, you can't have freedom and reach+monetization.
  • DenverCoder99 5y ago
    I've grown pessimistic about distributed networks and the Fediverse. The Pareto distribution is this neverending bastard of a phenomena that creeps up into everything we touch. If a distributed network ends up displacing Youtube, what's going to inevitably happen is one section of the network is going consume the vast majority of the viewership and content, and they're going to start repeating the same shit that Youtube is doing right now. I'm not saying we shouldn't promote alternatives, but I am saying we haven't really figured out how to properly integrate social media into our society without it disintegrating into what we're seeing now (or worse).
    • MiguelX413 5y ago
      I'd like for it to be abolished completely but I recognize that's just not helpful or realistic tbh