It seems strange to me that things like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc seem to be treated as inviolable constants, both by users and by their owners. It's kind of

It seems strange to me that things like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc seem to be treated as inviolable constants, both by users and by their owners. It's kind of taken for granted that they just fell from the sky like that and need to be worked around. Which, yes, I suppose they kind of do, and even a million people wanting something is a rounding error, but it's very different to collaborative projects.