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I think point 2 is actually quite important. YouTube used to be a source of genuinely innovative content. It is now far more corporate and anodyne, and the most popular videos are largely big production companies, and part of that is copy-striking.

Ofc, the intention of copy-striking was not to decrease competition. But that ended up happening because of the way that the system is implemented (it isn't just copy-striking, I think reporting violations/automated violation systems have the same consequence).

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Nonsense. Most of the videos on YouTube are still made by individual people. Just because there is now also corporate stuff on there doesn't mean you have to watch it. What do you want to do? Ban corporations from using YouTube?

I don't think I'm subscribed to a single corporate channel out of about 100 subscriptions.

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YouTube is bursting at the seams with quality content made by individuals or tiny teams.

A lot of those channels are small corporations.

Individuals incorporating themselves, then adding in their friends who also appear in their videos and maybe some assistants is a bit different than billion dollars companies posting their videos.

Forming an LLC is just good practice.

Is Tantacrul still blessing the exploitation of Audacity's previous good name?

If you mean "trying to improve the usability of Audacity" then sure. Pretty much all of the stuff in HN about it was wrong.

The best part was when they added so much spyware to Audacity that they said children couldn't use it anymore.

Ha yeah the part where under-13s weren't allowed to opt in to the telemetry was really misunderstood. Lots of people leaping to crazy conclusions like that children couldn't use it at all, or they were sharing all the telemetry with the KGB or whatever.

I assume implicitly, yes.

I don't think I really said this wasn't the case. What I said is that corporations comprise the most popular/most watched videos (which is true, if you look at the video rankings).

That can happen simultaneous with good, independent videos being produced. But I think those non-corporate videos would do better if YouTube wasn't so hostile (again, content strikes, getting reported for violations...have you genuinely never heard any complaints about YouTube from people who create videos on the platform?).

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