> On YouTube: as I mention in the piece, I think the service is excellent as a consumer, and I pay for Premium

Why? Because the tools that allow them to take almost 50% of the revenue (they say you earn) have low friction?

I would say the opposite. There is no customer service. There are endless legal pit traps that allow larger channels and companies to predate on smaller ones alongside the AI channels, which lead to the same end. The entire point of the platform is to push as much advertising as possible, while mutating a user's search habits. Ironically, this leads to videos becoming borderline useless for many use cases, without taking them off youtube. This is not a good platform.

I'm sure I feel this way because I don't have a bunch of content I'm afraid of being yanked from the platform. Another "benefit" of having a big youtube presence, is I would be forever worried about implied retaliation.

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bitpush 4 days ago | parent [-]

So .. you dont use YouTube since you detest the service so much?

	▲	Terr_ 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I read it as they're enabled to feel that way--and express it publicly--because their digital life and livelihood is not held hostage to the capricious monopoly.
	▲	eqvinox 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The problem with monopolies is that it's very hard to boycott them.
	▲	tempfile 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> And yet you live in society. Curious!
	▲	Supermancho 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Please don't gaslight. My critique is pointed. I did implicate that Youtube has monopolized the market, allowing a lower bar of service to become the norm. This latest move, seems to make every aspect of youtube's value proposition worse.