I’m not as optimistic as you.

Hosting video is really expensive. Making video is really expensive. YouTube was losing money for about 15 years despite having a monopoly on online video for most of that time and the best advertising tech in the world. I don’t think it’s possible to make a free competitor to YouTube.

On the paid side, there’s plenty of streaming services that are making money. But you have to be already established in order to get a contract. And since you will typically have to use social media in order to get past that initial barrier, it might as well include YouTube.

However, my guess is that YouTube makes the majority of it’s money from larger channels. If the larger channels all join paid streaming services(e.g. Nebula) then gradually that may be able to bring YouTube down.

Why would you hand your browsing data to the VPN company? It’s just moving the problem.

Unlike Google Maps, OSM is just as useful if you don’t drive. I love it for walking and cycling, it’s got all the little paths, categorized correctly.

Yes, exactly, you get it! I don’t like paying for things, you don’t like paying for things. Paying for things sucks. We need post scarcity communism.

Absolutely those things are different. But the point of a search engine is to, crudely and algorithmically, sort out both.

I agree in this case.

But there’s a narrative that software needs regular updates or it’s worthless, but some things are just done and stable.

If it’s feature complete, a keyboard doesn’t need regular updates. According to the other thread it’s not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it’s FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.

Probably some people, back when smartphones were novel in 2007.

At this point though, it’s tacky and implies that you don’t care enough about the conversation to turn it off.

If they don’t care about privacy and security, they aren’t wrong

No, it’s 0.1%. But Norway could be less than 1% of their market, so it’s somewhat significant.