A great example of how economics can incentivize degredation of a system: long blog posts that took weeks to prepare were pretty common, blowing up the main por

A great example of how economics can incentivize degredation of a system: long blog posts that took weeks to prepare were pretty common, blowing up the main portal (and the network effects with it) that work is presented on can be a pretty significant disincentive, giving competing platforms and formats (the medium is the message) an opportunity to capture and keep that attention (...is all you need). I can't help but think about the Google Reader shutdown "conspiratorially". I think YouTube has similar artifacts: 1. It would be very useful (and very obvious) to have a curated index by topic interface for YouTube videos and channels, but we only get search. And on top of that, the search is suspiciously shitty. I often search for very specific topics on YouTube and seemingly exhaust the results, only to come upon pre-existing videos later that should have come up in the search. 2. YouTube used to have messaging between users, but that was also shut down... I presume the reasoning given to the public for that would be similar to the story given here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story I think The Man has something against curated indexes, communities forming around them, and all the other things that can emerge from such ecosystems, one of them being power.