Comment Centralization is great but... (Score -1) 57
The general problem is if you are not on the largest platforms, you are missing large pieces of the pie.
If you are a video content creator, publishing your stuff on Vimeo over YouTube is a giant loss of eyes. It will lead large parts of the population to not even knowing you exist... because they never leave the app. It doesn't matter how much you fear how YouTube might not be presenting your videos to viewers or threats of demonetization over arbitrary things all applied by algorithms.
Similarly for Amazon, you could make your own store.... but most people will never leave Amazon's app to discover it. You then have to deal with the nightmare return system where you can't interact with the customer as a seller.
Things have become so consolidated that regardless of horrible treatment to the sellers vendors etc, you have to stick with the platform. It IS user centric now matter how many might want to complain. But it also kind of removes a large point of the internet in my opinion.