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Great article. Infinite content being firehosed to a content consumption bandwidth constrained population (still 24 hours in a day). The whole consumption mod
by gz5 6y ago
Great article.
Infinite content being firehosed to a content consumption bandwidth constrained population (still 24 hours in a day).
The whole consumption model changes - most folks end up drinking from the firehose by very lightly skimming an incredible width of content (even those it is narrow in sense that it is within the confines of the social network algorithms), while never deeply engaging, and rarely going outside their sweet spot.
Then the consumption model changes the supply side. And we loop. What breaks this loop?
- numpad0 6y agoFinite nature of VC investments! Twitter used to have UserStream, basically free Firehose, but the water level hit the floor and they shut it down.
- gz5 6y agoGood point. And $ focused on exponential growth communities consuming content paid for by the attention of the content consumers. Rather than $ focused on long tail communities and deeper, more expensive, more difficult to monetize (per unit cost) content.