Here’s my 2 cents that no one asked for: youtube has been the default video hosting service for a LONG TIME. It’s free to host videos, free to watch videos - it

Here’s my 2 cents that no one asked for: youtube has been the default video hosting service for a LONG TIME. It’s free to host videos, free to watch videos - it’s what people automatically think of when they think about watching longer videos online. As a consequence of it’s “default-ness”, there’s a lot of content that isn’t available anywhere else. Sometimes I can’t find a specific lecture, hardware installation video, or - yes - that funny video a friend sent me anywhere else. And it sucks, because I don’t want the tendrils from Google’s evil empire squirming into me like nematodes, but if I want to access that specific piece of content I need to take a big slurp from the cursed chalice. A big part of me hopes that this ends with more people putting their content somewhere else. Will “somewhere else” be any better? I have no idea. Would a video hosting diaspora even be desirable? Also no idea - it might be a terrible idea that ends with a lot of content being lost forever when a service goes belly up. I just feel like there’s got to be a better way.