[nonbirithm]

I keep thinking that either YouTube needs to continue to exist, or one day we'll have the potential to lose so much content at once. Entire companies predicate themselves on the fact that they can upload to or stream on the large services. It's a hard dependency not many think about consciously.

The sheer amount of technological progress that gets consolidated in the largest companies creates a lot of societal dependencies that would be catastrophic to undo. It reminds me of the work done to lift families in developing nations out of poverty through new jobs, then being unable to move those jobs domestically without it looking like there is now a tangible entity to blame for plunging those families into poverty again.