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Where does 'community' fit into the business picture? There is a corporate owner, and (eventually) there are some kind of advertisers or other customers. The v
by tom-thistime 7y ago
Where does 'community' fit into the business picture? There is a corporate owner, and (eventually) there are some kind of advertisers or other customers.
The volunteers who provide the content are not part of the business picture. Possibly if they organized they might be, but currently they're like chickens on a farm.
At one time all that was the obvious inevitable endgame of "walled gardens / web 2.0" That was why these sites were funded by investors.
Did this stop being obvious at some point since AOL and Yahoo went out of fashion? I'm sorry if I sound bleak, but this kind of horrorshow is a known problem.