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Why is the "independent web" in all of these articles exclusively referring to people trying to make money with ads? I make software and put it on the web for f
by gorena 11y ago
Why is the "independent web" in all of these articles exclusively referring to people trying to make money with ads? I make software and put it on the web for free. There are millions of Github repositories like this, are they not the "independent web"? I post pictures on various sites, under CC0. In high school, I made games and put them on the web, always for free.
It's disappointing to see the web portrayed as so profit-minded :(
- herge 11y ago> millions of Github repositories Every 'free' github repository is an ad/tie-in for their payed services. If you are not paying for something, it's because you are the product.
- gorena 11y agoOh, for fuck's sake. For one thing, I'm talking about the people that are posting things on Github, and Github itself is just an example. You can replace it with "a personal website on a server in your living room" if you prefer, although I suppose that's just an ad for your ISP's services? Secondly, you are not the product. You are never the product, unless you live in a country where slavery is still legal. "Inclusion of text and image content in HTML sent to you" is the product Facebook et. al. are selling, but that doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?
- herge 11y ago> "a personal website on a server in your living room" Which you pay for. Otherwise, your information, and activities on the website belong to someone else.
- s73v3r 11y agoPeople like to eat food and pay rent. Not everyone can afford to give away their hard work for free.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoWhat if their hard work is determined by the marketplace to have no value?
- s73v3r 11y agoThen people won't use it. But knowing the internet, people will claim up and down that it doesn't have any value, while still using it. And then call the person greedy for wanting to feed their family.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSomething can have a value to me at free, and if the price were to rise at all, I would shift my consumption elsewhere. Like Taylor Swift on Spotify.
- s73v3r 11y agoYou're paying for Spotify with ads.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoJust barely. I hit mute when they come on. I'd rather miss the next song than listen to an ad.
- s73v3r 11y agoThen pay for Spotify.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoLike I said above: > Something can have a value to me at free, and if the price were to rise at all, I would shift my consumption elsewhere.