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by weystrom 961 days ago
Because it wasn't the deal when they were consolidating the all online video content into themselves. And then once they've gotten "too big to fail", the greed rolled in.

They bait and switched us.

Youtube killed private video hosting. Reddit killed small thematic php-bb forums.

If people knew that they'd eventually do that, none of these platforms would be as big as they are today.