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i do think the search, recommendations, following, ease-of-uploading, and unlimited hosting capacity that youtube gives you are of real, incredible value.

They're certainly useful. I just question whether we wouldn't have found other ways to achieve these kinds of benefits if we didn't have YouTube, with the entire Internet interested in the results and well over a decade to come up with something.




perhaps. hopefully we still might.

random example of youtube shittiness i just stumbled over:

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1009197617408954368




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