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Anyone else think this is part of the natural life cycle of social media? Once something becomes big enough, even the users begin to monetize the content itself
by aleksiy123 5y ago
Anyone else think this is part of the natural life cycle of social media? Once something becomes big enough, even the users begin to monetize the content itself (meme pages, influencers). This is the beginning of the end. Everyone's just trying to milk it before it dies.
I don't see any ways to address this. Once enough attention is captured it will be inevitably used by someone to sell something. Developers want to get their ROI before someone else does and I don't blame them.
- SrslyJosh 5y agoFederation instead of centralization.
- aleksiy123 5y agoWhile I think this may be solution for a controlling entity to ruin a platform. I don't think it does anything for when the users themselves begin pushing advertisements through content. Which is what I believe really ruins platforms. For example a lot of Fitness Instagrammers start of by just posting of them working out or their daily lives. As they get popular, they start a clothing line, offer training, write ebooks, get sponsorships. Their instgram is now mostly for pushing those products on people.