I've been off YouTube for a few days and missed the new ad blocker news until coming to this thread. Now I'm like... `sigh` I guess it's time YouTube had it's m

I've been off YouTube for a few days and missed the new ad blocker news until coming to this thread. Now I'm like... `sigh` I guess it's time YouTube had it's mastodon moment... But indeed Video is a different (heavier) beast than text. I would assume a less perverse set of incentives that a federated platform offers would get rid of 99+% of the "content" that Youtube currently hosts, but the remaining 1% would still generate traffic many times bigger than mastodon I'd think.