The answers to all your questions is no, which is precisely the point the author is trying to make.
If we made the case for operating "at human scale" Youtube would be amongst first casualties.
to your last point :
> Anyone can upload a video and make it viewable by billions, instantly. I think we shouldn't forget how amazing this actually is.
By the same reasoning, COVID-19 is similarly amazing.
Opinions move on : Youtube is 15 years old now. It's a practical monopoly, being the worlds 2nd most visited website. I wont deny it's utility - but it's a gross centralisation who's modus operandi present significant questions - chiefly, Is it right that it has for years circumvented nearly all regulation applied to other media, and should it remains largely unaccountable to any elected power ?
So the challenge it seems is thus : how do preserve the good things that self published video content has done for us, but prevent or limit the consequences and attendant injustice caused by a service so infeasibly large. it's impossible to administer ?
I dont think it could be done better much better than youtube aat the scale youtube does it, but i would insist they need to be plugged in to existing national media regulators and bound by the same standards- flawed as they are.
> You'll end up with only the powerful being able to push content, you're taking the voice away from the masses.
i think the algorithms already do that. the channels with the most followers have the loudest voice
>. Try to gradually improve content moderation and live with the rare false-positives or false-negatives.
its better than it was, and will likely improve but it's still drowing in shills and scammers. i think this would be rooted out by more community centric model. exactly how that looks, i dont know - but i think self policing would play a part.
> the channels with the most followers have the loudest voice
Sure, but I don't people people are entitled to have their videos promoted for them. The fact that you can have your video hosted for free, and share it to anyone in the world is already great enough. While on average louder voices get the most attention, plenty of smaller creators have managed to get important messages out.
> drowing in shills and scammers
That seems like a hyperbole? Do you honestly feel this way browsing Youtube or Twitter? I'm not saying they don't exist but they're fairly rare in my experience.
> more community centric model
I agree, reddit's model works kinda well. Youtube has tried that in the past (though I guess they got rid of it?), and Twitter is experimenting with it now (Birdwatch). I also like the Facebook supreme court model for handling edge cases.
If we made the case for operating "at human scale" Youtube would be amongst first casualties.
to your last point :
> Anyone can upload a video and make it viewable by billions, instantly. I think we shouldn't forget how amazing this actually is.
By the same reasoning, COVID-19 is similarly amazing.
Opinions move on : Youtube is 15 years old now. It's a practical monopoly, being the worlds 2nd most visited website. I wont deny it's utility - but it's a gross centralisation who's modus operandi present significant questions - chiefly, Is it right that it has for years circumvented nearly all regulation applied to other media, and should it remains largely unaccountable to any elected power ?
So the challenge it seems is thus : how do preserve the good things that self published video content has done for us, but prevent or limit the consequences and attendant injustice caused by a service so infeasibly large. it's impossible to administer ?