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ilovecake1984yesterday at 10:55 PM1 replyview on HN

There is some okay stuff on YouTube.

There is nothing stopping people reposting stuff on platforms without social media elements and with proper curation and publisher responsibilities.

Most big YouTubers would love this to happen I’m sure.


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krappyesterday at 11:28 PM

This will be a controversial statement here, but for better or worse, Youtube is a modern Library of Alexandria. It archives a significant amount of human knowledge and culture in video form, and for a lot of it, there is no backup.

Big, popular channels do push their viewers to alternative platforms like Patreon because of Youtube's censorship guidelines and arbitrary demonetization, but a lot of valuable content is on smaller channels where the owners may not have the wherewithal to transfer all of their content, much less their audience.