I like that comprehensive answer, maybe you should put more context in your initial comments in the future. I agree with your perspective but just saying “xy=bad” is never really helpful.

This has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

Tbh I don’t really care about AI as long as it’s used as a tool and not the only developer. If you really understand what it’s doing and you have your own vision and thoughts, AI can do the “boring” work. I mean most software isn’t that security cornering anyways, I would think different of it if we’d speak about a password manager or something like this.

I think it’s totally valid to use AI for the groundwork.

This sounds very promising :) really looking forward to it. For the signals part, I think the most important would be watch history, then subscriptions. Maybe you could implement something like "recommendation groups"? Like some channels or videos you like(d) grouped together so you have more fine grained recommendations?

The recommendation system definitely is a big thing, I think it would bring many people to switch from YouTube. Like already talked about, most people only watch recommendations. I’d also like sometimes to have the option to look for new interesting stuff.

One of my friends would instantly switch if there were an AppleTV App and also recommendations. I think this speaks for many people.

I don’t care for downloading really, so can’t say anything about that. I think the current solution is really good tho.

I’m not completely sure about twitch. For me using my twitch account makes sense, because twitch is more interactive and this probably wouldn’t fit the philosophy of typetype. If it would be compatible, I’d love an Integration with twitch livestreams and VODs and also 7tv for the chat. But it’s probably too much tbh.

thanks a lot for all your work!