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<blockquote data-quote="weambulance" data-source="post: 1120745" data-attributes="member: 7174">RE: New YouTube Censorship Regulations Direct Result Of German NetzDG LawOn the plus side, their core team is all men. So they have a good chance of at least not totally fucking the dog.On the negative side, unless they make it super user friendly they're just going to end up like the Pied Piper launch in the third season of Silicon Valley. It's a bizarre system--especially the navigation--compared to the current internet, and normal people will not tolerate much in the way of barriers to content before they say fuck it and go back to youtube or wherever.My gut says they're pursuing decentralization a bit too religiously. It looks more like a shiny toy than a real working model. A hybrid approach--a creator owned and managed server or CDN with some kind of voluntary decentralization where supporters can choose to help host content in return for access at a reduced rate (or access to premium content), for example--makes a lot more sense to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="weambulance, post: 1120745, member: 7174"] [b]RE: New YouTube Censorship Regulations Direct Result Of German NetzDG Law[/b] On the plus side, their core team is all men. So they have a good chance of at least not totally fucking the dog. On the negative side, unless they make it super user friendly they're just going to end up like the Pied Piper launch in the third season of Silicon Valley. It's a bizarre system--especially the navigation--compared to the current internet, and normal people will not tolerate much in the way of barriers to content before they say fuck it and go back to youtube or wherever. My gut says they're pursuing decentralization a bit too religiously. It looks more like a shiny toy than a real working model. A hybrid approach--a creator owned and managed server or CDN with some kind of voluntary decentralization where supporters can choose to help host content in return for access at a reduced rate (or access to premium content), for example--makes a lot more sense to me. [/QUOTE]

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