💭 YouTube has earned its crown
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!https://world.hey.com/dhh/youtube-has-earned-its-crown-48f12ccc

Date: August 7, 2025

YouTube has earned its crown
 I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behin...
 world.hey.com [1]

I wonder how much of [killed-by-google](https://killedbygoogle.com/) is due to is [20 percent time](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/787). Allowing engineers to follow a passion project turns into a real product that doesn't have full backing and support of the company.

similar to DHH as much as I am hurt by reader and all of their privacy BS that comes from ad based revenue I appreciate YouTube and them supporting all of the creators on it. Giving a platform for small creators the ability to sustain themselves and reach a larch audience without big coorporate rules.

!!! note

 This post is a thought [2]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [3]

References:
[1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/youtube-has-earned-its-crown-48f12ccc
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/