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What's the problem with the drive for monetization? Out in the physical world you also rarely get services and content for free. Also monetization here mostly m
by poisonborz 4y ago
What's the problem with the drive for monetization? Out in the physical world you also rarely get services and content for free. Also monetization here mostly means possibilites for donation and paying for extra content, usually most of a creator's content is still free. As for money-grabber content: a good platform should have an efficient and honest rating mechanism.
- adrianN 4y agoWhen I first started using the Internet it was like going to a pub and striking up a conversation with a stranger about a topic of mutual interest, or going to the park and watching people do things they enjoy. There was no competition to maximize my engagement in order to have me watch ads that create desires for things that I don't need. It was just some dudes who really liked talking about crop circles or model trains or semiconductors. Imo it's the difference between doing things in order to make money and making money in order to do things.
- Barrin92 4y ago>What's the problem with the drive for monetization? Out in the physical world you also rarely get services and content for free. It's just as screwed up in the real world, the difference is that the internet at least temporarily offered an escape hatch to our screwed up economic system because at least the same logic of scarcity didn't apply. Now we've bolted the same crap on top of our digital lives.