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Yup. Social media is constantly searching for the perfect product by trying out ridiculous but interesting combinations of technologies. Something works, we try
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Yup. Social media is constantly searching for the perfect product by trying out ridiculous but interesting combinations of technologies. Something works, we try out different stuff and hope to make progress.
But where is progress taking us? Should we follow it blindly?
- jimkleiber 5y agoBut how to know whether it makes progress or not?
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoExactly. Maybe it's all just a very clever proof of waste. Advertizement industry certainly looks like a cancer on collective conscioussness. Maybe art can supplant it. Extravagant displays of nothing in particular.
- jimkleiber 5y agoFigure out a new business model and I imagine many platforms will gladly move away from advertising. Advertising, unfortunately, has a pretty strong growth model. People get something for free and advertisers pay increasing prices for the one ad spot and when the spot maximizes its price, the platform creates more spots. As most business models, it burns out eventually, but subscriptions seem to burn out more quickly.