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I've seen this so many times, but if this future comes I think there will be a lot of angry ass people complaining about the $100s of dollars it costs to make t

I've seen this so many times, but if this future comes I think there will be a lot of angry ass people complaining about the $100s of dollars it costs to make the internet useful.

adventured 8y ago
Every recipe site runs on ads as one example. Now five million recipes across 1,000 prominent sites are to be locked behind paywalls, and you must pay $5 per month for access to each site due to the extreme drop in traffic they suffer (nobody is signing up to pay except at the largest sites, smaller sites have to charge more to make up for that, they implode accordingly). The result: 973 of those sites disappear. Diversity of choice just collapsed. Starting a new recipe site or blog just got 100x more difficult. But hey, in Communist Internet, who needs lots of recipe sites.
- mynewtb 8y ago
  What do you think the creative work is for running a recipe site? And what about the technical work/costs? I guess you mean the kind where either there are users providing those for free or it uses a huge number of compiled one, not some person inventing new ones. I would wager that 970 of those sites can be run for virtually no cost, either maintained by loyal community or the wide internet.
  - fiter 8y ago
    Many recipe sites are basically blogs, so yes, there is a lot of cost associated with each of them. I do not know if they tend to make money their money on ads or on books or on other methods.
- gkya 8y ago
  First of all, ethical ads are possible, and more so on a website already very targeted like a recipes website. I can easily guess what sorts of ads would be useful. Furthermore, I agree the sibling commenter in that these sorts of websites usually just publish what community submits anyways, so we can have a bunch of wikis instead. P.S.: Everybody should know the difference between trying to overcome the status quo which is selling yourself to companies and hoping that they do not abuse you, and things like communism or government overreach. And if businesses will lose money or get closed if they stop bad, malevolent practices of theirs, good riddance. Let the sanity get the better of them.

I've seen this so many times, but if this future comes I think there will be a lot of angry ass people complaining about the $100s of dollars it costs to make the internet useful.

adventured 8y ago

Every recipe site runs on ads as one example. Now five million recipes across 1,000 prominent sites are to be locked behind paywalls, and you must pay $5 per month for access to each site due to the extreme drop in traffic they suffer (nobody is signing up to pay except at the largest sites, smaller sites have to charge more to make up for that, they implode accordingly). The result: 973 of those sites disappear. Diversity of choice just collapsed. Starting a new recipe site or blog just got 100x more difficult. But hey, in Communist Internet, who needs lots of recipe sites.

mynewtb 8y ago
What do you think the creative work is for running a recipe site? And what about the technical work/costs? I guess you mean the kind where either there are users providing those for free or it uses a huge number of compiled one, not some person inventing new ones. I would wager that 970 of those sites can be run for virtually no cost, either maintained by loyal community or the wide internet.
- fiter 8y ago
  Many recipe sites are basically blogs, so yes, there is a lot of cost associated with each of them. I do not know if they tend to make money their money on ads or on books or on other methods.
gkya 8y ago
First of all, ethical ads are possible, and more so on a website already very targeted like a recipes website. I can easily guess what sorts of ads would be useful. Furthermore, I agree the sibling commenter in that these sorts of websites usually just publish what community submits anyways, so we can have a bunch of wikis instead. P.S.: Everybody should know the difference between trying to overcome the status quo which is selling yourself to companies and hoping that they do not abuse you, and things like communism or government overreach. And if businesses will lose money or get closed if they stop bad, malevolent practices of theirs, good riddance. Let the sanity get the better of them.