Thank god there's 20 alternatives to YouTube then.
Daily reminder to use Peertube and that being able to reach people, centralization, and ad monetization are incompatible with freedom.
Use Peertube, you can't have freedom and reach+monetization.
If a distributed network ends up displacing Youtube, what's going to inevitably happen is one section of the network is going consume the vast majority of the viewership and content, and they're going to start repeating the same shit that Youtube is doing right now.
I'm not saying we shouldn't promote alternatives, but I am saying we haven't really figured out how to properly integrate social media into our society without it disintegrating into what we're seeing now (or worse).