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You mean like a company? I mean, this has been answered a million times over. It's scale, it's always scale. Yes, Youtube needs a real competitor, and it's the
by jrm4 5y ago
You mean like a company? I mean, this has been answered a million times over. It's scale, it's always scale.
Yes, Youtube needs a real competitor, and it's the sort of thing that would be very difficult to do as a for-profit company. I'd begin by asking Jimmy Wales and the like. Peertube's a great start.
- gwbas1c 5y agoMakes me wonder if this is a case where regulation needs to inject competition, like when we broke up Ma Bell into separate companies. What if The act of uploading and hosting had to be a separate company from the act of searching and viewing? What would "YouTube" look like if someone could write their own app that had access to all of the same content? What would "YouTube" look like if someone could provide their own uploading and hosting service?