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News and other content will always exist beyond Facebook. The sad part is watching adtech kill more businesses as it devours its own tail.
by teaneedz 10y ago
News and other content will always exist beyond Facebook.
The sad part is watching adtech kill more businesses as it devours its own tail.
- sergiosgc 10y agoWhat happens is that content follows the money. If we do not want content to be a puppet to advertisement, it is on us to create a different revenue stream. Advertisement is an ok answer to the financial support problem of content. However, it has a serious flaw: It caters to masses rather well, and to niches very poorly. I like to think that a direct revenue flow (from readers to writers) would create strong incentives for more niche content. Investigative journalism, independent tech reviews; stuff that is desperately needed but not consumed by the masses. Is is on us, techies. We can go down the ad-blocking arms race or we can go down the new business models race. One is destructive, the other is constructive.