Long ago, when I first got on the Internet, the big social media forum was Usenet. It was a distributed network of instances where users would have an account on a particular instance, where they could subscribe to "newsgroups" dedicated to particular topics. Their instance would broadcast their posts to a newsgroup to all the other instances that were following that newsgroup, so everyone could interact even if they were on different instances.

Then the World Wide Web grew, and centralized sites like Digg and Reddit appeared that handled the same sort of social media. Usenet faded. It's still around, I suppose, though these days last I checked it's largely a mechanism for distributing pirated files.

Someday those centralized sites might also fade. Who knows, maybe a decentralized system like Usenet might grow again to replace it?

The wheel turns.

I get what the video is saying, but I don't see this as a bad thing. We moved on from many of those services because we found better ways to do things, or at least ways that we liked more. And when we move on from the services we use now, it'll be because we once again found something we liked better.

The internet has died several times, but each time it came back in some new way that had adapted to the new ideas and ways we came up with on how to interact with each other. I'm sure when it dies next, we'll replace it with something that better fits our changing wants and needs.

And hopefully, when that time comes, it's something much more decentralized and resilient against governments and corporations meddling and censoring us.

...and YouTube is one of the major reasons. The web's not a fucking TV and if you're using it as a TV you'll get stupid even faster than from watching actual TV.

Aside: what’s the gist of this channel? I’m not really familiar with it but the last few things I’ve seen of it appear to be two brothers communicating to each other via vlogs?