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> This is about me as the customer, not about you and your monthly active user numbers. Businesses want to retain customers and have repeat customers, not nece

by platz 5y ago

> This is about me as the customer, not about you and your monthly active user numbers. Businesses want to retain customers and have repeat customers, not necessarily just active user numbers. Do you think it is not in a businesses interest to do so? > We don’t create content for the web and for longevity. We create content to show ads around it. Not just ads, but regarding social, what is more valuable to people, a library or a mechanism to get attention and influence from people? The broader "rat race" here is how people must earn a living in todays's society > I didn’t have to wait for a certain time to learn about a new movie – I could read up on it any time I wanted. Who created that content and if it was from a professional source, did you benefit from it? "information wants to be free" sure sounds great if you're not the one supplying it. It doesnt sound like the author was a contributor to the free and open web. I'd be interested to hear a perspective from one of the bloggers he referenced who tirelessly produced content and who's blog died in 2010 with nothing to show for it.

BizarroLand 5y ago
You're supplying information in the form of your opinion on this topic for free. Now imagine that hacker news starts displaying obvious ads here and someone needs the information you freely provided but is frustrated in finding it because of 3 pages of trash results placed above your post. You would have to agree that this scenario would at the very least be frustrating, not only for you but also for the people who want your free content, right?
- platz 5y ago
  > You're supplying information in the form of your opinion on this topic for free. My "information" here is not "content" like How to fold a Shurgard moving crate or Movie Reviews i.e. produced with intent to inform/educate the general public about specialized topics. My post is simply part of the social web of personal opinions, and he doesn't seem to think twitter/instagram/tiktok are solving his problems. Forums do exist. Hacker news and Reddit does exist. But I think the OP is not satisfied with Reddit and would not be satisfied if we just had a bunch of additional forum sites.

by platz 5y ago

BizarroLand 5y ago

You're supplying information in the form of your opinion on this topic for free. Now imagine that hacker news starts displaying obvious ads here and someone needs the information you freely provided but is frustrated in finding it because of 3 pages of trash results placed above your post. You would have to agree that this scenario would at the very least be frustrating, not only for you but also for the people who want your free content, right?

platz 5y ago
> You're supplying information in the form of your opinion on this topic for free. My "information" here is not "content" like How to fold a Shurgard moving crate or Movie Reviews i.e. produced with intent to inform/educate the general public about specialized topics. My post is simply part of the social web of personal opinions, and he doesn't seem to think twitter/instagram/tiktok are solving his problems. Forums do exist. Hacker news and Reddit does exist. But I think the OP is not satisfied with Reddit and would not be satisfied if we just had a bunch of additional forum sites.