Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago“public”
If y’all stop investing your time and energy into private companies as if they’re the public interest, we wouldn’t have these issues.
JGrffn@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The problem is the content being uploaded to these platforms serves a real and meaningful public, community purpose. Reddit has always been a knowledge base for a plethora of different subjects, YouTube has all sorts of content that has historical importance to the internet, as well as a trove of educational content that is unparalleled in size and quality.
I take issue with that, because it’s not the company’s content, it’s just their platform. The content is vastly more important than the platform, but the companies act as if it’s theirs. They do everything based off what the community has built on their platforms, it’s their true essence and what actually attracts people.
In the specific case of YouTube, I’d say that content is irreplaceable and indispensable. While it’s true that it is a privately owned platform and we don’t have much of a say on its direction, I truly believe the content is so important that the only viable path forward to prevent its loss, is to take said platform off private hands. I don’t believe it’ll ever happen, but it is what should happen, as it’s literally impossible to back up YouTube, just like it’s currently impossible to compete with YouTube.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It IS theirs. We straight gave it to them. We’re idiots. So start making it elsewhere.
SCB@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Idk why anyone would downvote this. This is literally what happened.
If it just like, makes you mad, cool - this dude’s mad too. You agree with each other.