https://alternativeto.net/software/youtube/
Progress just happens now and then, newer people comes to the ecosystem and change things to their liking. And in this case the blockchain invention is to big and disruptive to be ignored
Someone is working on a blockchain related system for all the things you said
And probably in the future no one will trust a company without some sort of auditable public blockchain ledger
But they don't stick. Simply being an alternative is not sufficient to make a service better and very few people care about the fundamental difference between youtube and some website that serves videos that are IPFS references.
> And probably in the future no one will trust a company without some sort of auditable public blockchain ledger
Why? What undesirable action would youtube take that is prevented by having them reference a blockchain such that you now trust them? The core things that people don't like about youtube are
1. Making videos and channels unavailable on youtube.com
2. The recommendation algorithm
3. Google remembering your browsing history and later serving you ads based on their profile of your interests
All of those still exist even if all of the videos are instead IPFS references.
> But they don't stick. Simply being an alternative is not sufficient
Tiktok clearly overtook a part o YT for younger people. And some big youtubers already double publish in other platforms
> Why? What undesirable action would youtube take that is prevented by having them reference a blockchain such that you now trust them?
Imagine a new video service appears that hosts the video normally, without IPFS etc, but tracks the user views/likes/dislikes in a public blockchain
Now there is someone with 1 million to invest in adverts. Will they do it on a platform where can validate the actual numbers, or trust YT word?
Not even sure if feasible, everything at the moment is hypothetical. But it will come
