That's not really true anymore either. Now e.g. the streaming video services keep removing stuff all the time, and shift focus to producing new stuff. Their intent is to keep you subbed for the new content.

But even so, the limitations before was natural. You can't ship a truck of magazines to everyone every month. You could still access old issues in a library tho. Cable TV couldn't have everything all the time, but reruns and niche channels kept trying to fill the blanks.

Now the limitations are purely artificial. "You can only access what we say you can. Shut up and consume."

haha.... no, not really. not in most cases anyway. In a lot of cases you are forced to update to the newer app that has "an improved user experience" which usually means it got nerfed

Just think customer vs. consumer.

Social media is just a broader catch-all. If you look at literature actually studying these things, distinctions are made between SNSs - Social Networking Sites - and other forms of social media.

SNSs are a subset of social media sites that usually involve mutual follows. Think Facebook or LinkedIn. Those are the sorts of sites that are based around social networking. But the majority of the social web is not made up of SNSs, and networks are much looser or even poorly defined on the rest of the social web, so it's difficult to call it "social networking".

Granted, I think there is an important distinction between the two. I'd call stuff like Discord and Snapchat "social media", in they're mediums with "Web 2.0" socialisation elements, but not Facebook/Twitter/Friends Reunited sorts of things like "social networks" tend to be.

Hmm… I don’t think this has been my experience. My subscriptions page on YouTube has always shown all the new videos from all of my subscriptions. It's recently changed to also include “shorts” which I hate, but they’re all there whether I’ve watched any of their content or not.

Home page is a different story, but I don’t really scroll there. I always go straight to subs.

Meanwhile, it will insist on showing you awful recommendations from channels you have never watched no matter how long you ignore them or how many times you click "not interested".

What you're describing is the home page, not the subscription page. If you want to see content from your subscriptions, go to your subscription page. I prefer my home page to be a mix of things I know and things I don't know. Found tons of interesting content that way.

One of the reasons I don't even bother with a Youtube account and instead track my subscriptions with Invidious.

My wife watches a lot of YouTube and has several favorites. She's subscribed to none of them. Apparently lots of people do this and completely ignore the subscription feature.

There are issues now that hasn't existed before:

• DRM, enough said
• Streaming content
• Or other means to make content unavailable

Think P.T. It still exists only on a handful of PS4 consoles. Konami simply has no interest in releasing it.

Or all the MMOs and online games. Can't even run your own server without some herculean effort.

Or games only on Apple TV (subscription to boot).

Magazines tend to be distributed in some weird formats that only one app can open.

Even when it comes to stuff like TV shows that were pulled from streaming services recently, some are completely gone because nobody thought to archive and distribute them. And who does, faces legal risks.

Some of these problems aren't new, lost old media is a known issue, but wasn't modern tech supposed to make things better?

(Not to mention reliance on technology in general. A good enough solar flare can wipe all the data on half the planet. That's another topic tho.)

A reasonable amount of it will be gone. If there is not adequate warning and people willing to spend time and server space on preservation then a lot will disappear when the companies who own the IP or host the content go under/move to other focuses.

It's not like there will necessarily be wholesale losses like when the BBC were taping over all the old Dr Who episodes, or even more modern examples like the time Myspace lost all music hosted on their site, but I would expect a reasonable proportion to be at least widely inaccessible.

I agree, but once game streamimg and rental games on consoles become the norm, and other streaming situations, even piracy won't save us.

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Where I live, they do. (And they distribute donated stuff to libraries that are missing stuff.)

Yea I was thinking of mentioning HB as an old-school way of doing things. But also almost all the games are just on Steam, so that defeats the purpose.

I remember Xbox magazines that came with demo disc's. Those were the days. NY 20s were awesome.

I think most people just hoard games on Steam without playing them.