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by bufferoverflow 1754 days ago
There are no popular alternatives to Youtube and Twitter.

The number of users is important, and they have monopolies on the user base.

Learn about network effects.

1 comments

I'm sorry but your analogy just doesn't work.

If you're de-platformed from YouTube, Facebook, etc, you can still publish your content and share it. You have a distribution issue, you don't have an "ability to perform" issue.

If you're locked out of the banking system, your business is done. You lack transactional alternatives.