[swarnie_]

> YouTube will be fine. It's big enough to implement enough tech that they can say they're doing what they can. In fact, they've probably had enough there for years.

Youtube can't even proactively moderate its platform now, its always moving after a media outlet writes a hit piece. Even when they do react their solutions are ham-fisted at best.

I'm starting to think these companies (youtube/facebook ect) are simply too large and traditional economies of scale don't actually work in the way they do for non-tech businesses.

[ocdtrekkie]

The tech industry has long treated scaling as an inherent good and positive goal. And that's money backed, for sure. But I increasingly believe scale is causing problems that technology can't fix. Communities too large to be moderated by groups of humans become problematic, and I'd even argue networks and platforms at large scale become easy to exploit and manipulate from a security standpoint as well.

A small curated app store has quality apps published by humans. A giant app store trends towards being full of malware. The larger a platform becomes, the easier it is taken advantage of by bad actors.