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Platforms like YouTube and Reddit have the fundamental issue that they feel entitled to incredible amounts of money for serving content they didn't create. They make lots off money off the back of creators, then find new and malicious ways to be a platform that's just painful to be on.
I disabled watch and search history on my Google accounts (recommend everyone do that), and now there's this passive aggressive blank home page when I open YouTube as if that's the best experience they could come up with. Don't show me content I'm subscribed to or anything, just a blank page like fuck you.
There should be a way for creators like the author here to be compensated, while the platform gets a fair cut for hosting it and making it easy to find the content you want. Google, across all their platforms, has forgotten that getting people to the right content was what made them the best platform in the past. Instead, it's forcing you through a swath of shit you don't want, in hopes they make more ad revenue.
Fuck the decision makers at these platforms.
I haven't used it myself, but the ethos of the grayjay video app is "follow content creators, not platforms".