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The difference between YouTube and Reddit is so drastic they are basically incomparable.

YouTube is a humongous monster with their own network backbone and video storage boxes co-hosted by countless ISPs. Multiple major governments would like to unseat YouTube, but they simply can't. YouTube's competitors are Netflix and (to lesser extent) classic TV networks.

Reddit is a web forum hosting platform, that can be wholly bankrolled by a single upper-class US citizen (assuming that your drop their awful video-hosting). Reddit's competitors are WordPress and phpBB.

One of them is somewhat of necessary evil. Another hardly deserves to have it's own custom clients to begin with.

PeerTube while still lacking a ton of content and features is gaining traction. I have hope.

You've completely missed what provides the value of both YT and Reddit - the content and network effect. Their tech is "easily" replicated.

YT isn't easily replicated though, it's insanely expensive. Reddit tech is easily replicated and that's the difference.

:-D Ok, you got me <raises hands in surrender>. NewPipe is actually my primary YT client on the phone :-)

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