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"Why does Microsoft not have a video platform like YouTube?":

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-pl...

Future To-Do: Get Microsoft to create/buy its own video sharing service...

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While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities.

In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.

I hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.

> post offices of the internet. Government-run

I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?

How about the US Postal Service?

I remember a few YouTube competitors from Microsoft 10+ years ago - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox

They had Mixer and gave up on it rather abruptly.

Wasn't that more of a Twitch alternative than YT?

Well, YouTube also competes with Twitch, but yes. Still doesn't bode well for a YouTube competitor though.

A twitch competitor failed for what I believe will be the same reasons a youtube competitor will fail.

They did a deal with Facebook which is planning to launch a Twitch competitor.

TikTok? :D

Not if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.

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