YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Not all of them. What about the ones who are no longer active on the platform? The ones people forgot about? The ones who have died? You think there will be 100% coverage? In the case of YouTube, many channel operators don’t actually keep a local copy of all their videos, since the files would be too big. So the only copy is the one on YouTube.

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      1 year ago

      What about the ones who are no longer active on the platform? The ones people forgot about? The ones who have died? You think there will be 100% coverage?

      Maybe that’s not that much of a bad thing. The day had the same length before YouTube was a thing, and people spent 100% of their time. Differently. Some things might have been pushed out of sight by YouTube, and a dying giant can create room for new things to grow.

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        1 year ago

        The Library of Alexandria burning down wasn’t a good thing. Any time human knowledge that has been collected gets scattered it’s bad

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          I get your point, but the comparison barely holds. The Library of Alexandria had many unique works of cultural and scientific importance. YouTube is full of mundane content, mostly entertainment. Especially the scientific parts are merely re-tellings of other works which do not live on the same platform. Nobody stores their scientific findings on YouTube alone. Many creators do not upload to YouTube alone.

          The more people value a specific video, the higher the chance it got copied elsewhere. So for the important parts, we probably have decent coverage.

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            undefined> The Library of Alexandria had many unique works of cultural and scientific importance. YouTube is full of mundane content, mostly entertainment.

            Are you serious? The vast majority of culturally significant artifacts were, at the time of their creation, mundane and/or entertainment.

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              1 year ago

              Are you serious?

              Yes. From my point of view, you overstate the importance of YouTube or understate the importance of TLoA. But since we’re merely exchanging differences of opinion, we might as well agree to disagree at this point.

              Luckily, you can store weeks and months of important material on a disk worth a few dozen meals, or join a group who already does it.

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      What about all the old art and other stuff that hasn’t been kept around? They probably weren’t worth preserving through the ages, if it’s good enough we’ll see it again