>>10708226I enjoy talking with you too :)
>I am starting to wonder whether we regular people have anything to gain from itI think we do, even if the most beneficial things will be out of our reach because of their high price. It just takes some time for them to trickle down. But honestly, I think the fears about mechanization taking away all the jobs are overblown. At some point, people will have enough, and take them back thru force. Even the retainers won't be able to stop them then.
>none of them ever caught on.There's Invidio, I guess. But that just uses a different front-end for the same api. Problem is no one wants to move over to a new place when it gets as big as that, so it just becomes a self-reinforcing machine, getting larger and larger. If someone really wants to replace it, they'd have to add some new functionality that it lacks. There's little incentive to move, otherwise. Then again, YT would just copy that addition to compete.
This's making me miss the old YT. It was so different back then, though so was the Internet at large. We can't go back, but I still feel we can make things better, if we try.
>>10708236Are you ok?
