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Because they're greedy and care more about having access to the enormous YouTube audience than being in control of their fan relationship.

• EGreg 12y ago
  But what if there was a decentralized social network that allowed people to visit their site and immediately get a personalized experience as if they were logged in across this decentralized network? Why would people need to HOST their stuff on the centralized servers?
  • dublinben 12y ago
    That sounds a lot like Pump.io or Diaspora. MediaGoblin is going to support federation soon as well.
    • EGreg 12y ago
      I personally think there should be a protocol that would turn everything into one big social network where you could sign up on any server and then OAuth to other servers. We are building it: http://platform.qbix.com http://platform.qbix.com (Better than Diaspora* :)
      • sehr 12y ago
        That was a slick transition from healthy conversation to self promotion
        • EGreg 12y ago
          Happens when you're passionate about what you're building and few others have spent as many man hours
      • walterbell 12y ago
        Did you consider an open-source or dual-licensing business model? See http://www.1060research.com/products/ http://www.1060research.com/products/ for an example.
        • EGreg 12y ago
          Elaborate :)
          • walterbell 12y ago
            The FAQ's explain when a license is needed: http://www.1060research.com/resources/#open http://www.1060research.com/resources/#open Essentially, if the code that uses the framework is open-source, then the framework can be used with a public license at no charge. If the code that users the framework is proprietary, then the framework has a license fee.