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This assumes that most of the content would require much funding to operate. Could we make it cheap enough to host a personal blog and/or wiki on a smartphone
by jka 6y ago
This assumes that most of the content would require much funding to operate.
Could we make it cheap enough to host a personal blog and/or wiki on a smartphone for, say, $10 a year?
The economics would be very different as sites scale up their traffic (compare with, for example, The New York Times).
I think the (relatively) small number of high-traffic sites would be able to find revenue streams to support their hosting - perhaps those would be where subscriptions would be effective.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoIt’s not just that, removing ads as a funding source make the barrier to entry higher for someone who wants to launch a competitor to the platforms: medium, substack, NYT, etc. This may of may not be good, but I’m a bit concerned that destroying the adtech industry may have ripple effects that end up being worse than some middle way like FLoC