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  • If it were an ideal free market with an infinite amount of competitor, you'd be right. That logic ceases to function in a monopolistic context. In the case of YouTube it's not "go to the competition" because there's none. It's "stop watching online videos", which is still possible but a huge shift in habits, hobbies, and cultural environment. It's extremely difficult and only a tiny minority will succeed because human's psychology is a real thing.

  • In english, "I know you are, but what am I" is a childlish rebuttal to name-calling. It's like saying "no, it's not me, it's you" or "it's the one who says it who is".

    It's the degree zero of rebuttal becaude there's no argument. In this joke, the rebuttal actually works in a court setting and seems to convince the judge.

  • Two solutions that I see:

    1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
    2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.
  • Of course. And I'll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I'm better off blocking it. I'm not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I'm against advertisement abuse and greed.

    I'll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.