I wish the trend wasn't for social network companies to rewrite web apps from scratch in javascript when they could simply in this case just hand me the video and my preferred local application would play it.

I get that they can display suggestions for what you should watch next and keep data on how much you watch or how often you pause it or whatever. But if we're going to create a decentralized social network, then maybe we could junk all the metrics that a centralized social network keeps on their users. Let it evolve organically, rather than in a way that best suits one particular small group of people, and give people back their privacy as well as their autonomy.

Edit: rewrote an awkward sentence.