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0 pointsafavour4y ago0 comments

> Please educate yourself on the scale of YouTube

You're being very condescending when it's totally unwarranted. I assure you people are aware of the scale of YouTube.

But why should we give YouTube a free pass? You're talking about the service as if it's a force of nature rather than something human created and managed. Why are they entitled to operate at a scale beyond their own control, all while extracting huge profits?

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4ec0755f55224y ago

This is the thing exactly! They built a system that allows infinite uploads but did not build a system to handle the workload of dealing with infinite uploads.

Some people just want to throw their hands up: "Dealing with infinite uploads is hard!" "It doesn't scale!" without realizing the youtube is responsible for the very problem they created. They designed it this way!

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