It works for you (as in, single person). Not for your friends and family who will ask you one day what to do about the account they lost.
We (technical people) know this happens and have seen it happen - it is on us to push for better solution than convincing one person at a time. Unless one prefers nihilism and watching the world burn of course.
Popularity cannot be dictated, unless you're suggesting something like a regulation that would limit the total number of users a website is allowed to register.
Then move off. It's not the only solution.
There are alternatives to all these: Search, Email, Game streaming, Online doc editing, Etc
> Then move off.
Great, let's legislate that you can switch providers but you have to be able to keep your email address, like we did with phones.
You already can, if you use an email provider like gmail with your own domain name.
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> Then move off.
It works for you (as in, single person). Not for your friends and family who will ask you one day what to do about the account they lost.
We (technical people) know this happens and have seen it happen - it is on us to push for better solution than convincing one person at a time. Unless one prefers nihilism and watching the world burn of course.
The world is not burning. Do you know what was before play store, YouTube, twitch, whatever... nothing.
It's not like they came and stomped over your beautiful garden.
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I'd argue there's no real alternative to YouTube. There's got to be orders of magnitude more content there than all of its competitors combined.
I'll give you YouTube :)
YouTube feels like it's about to hit some wall though, content matching copyright take downs seem to be getting out of control.
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Don't like it? Build your own.... Everything.
Popularity cannot be dictated, unless you're suggesting something like a regulation that would limit the total number of users a website is allowed to register.
Network effects are pretty handy, though.