Antitrust Google. Fork YouTube as part of it. All existing content must be preserved. Remove YouTube’s ability to sell licensed content (cable TV channels, music, on demand). YouTube can then be purchased or spun off as a “YOU Tube” again - content made by people for people. Brand saved, community focused. Monetization heavily regulated (governance or internal governance, but just make it a requirement.)
Or just let it burn and replace it with something else. Video’s just super-expensive to host and provide, probably by design to keep others out of the market.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah. Reddit is technologically very bland. It’s “easy” to make a Reddit clone - the community is what makes it tick. But YouTube needs crazy levels of infrastructure to provide the full experience that it does. When Reddit collapses there’s places to migrate to. But if YouTube collapses it’s just a loss.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not to mention you can fit more Reddit on a 1TB hard drive than YouTube, which makes it much easier to exfiltrate content.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
On the other hand, maybe it will prop up PeerTube for once…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
Better start mirroring content now
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It already happens
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But in either case there’s massive value in the existing content that would be lost.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m sure some of those creators will try to take their content other places