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I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the
by malermeister 4y ago
I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs.
This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it.
I'd rather not have monetization ruin more stuff. Why does everything always have to be commercialized?
- baby 4y ago> I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. I don't agree. There's not one "need" for the internet. The internet, as any technology, enables use cases by being more flexible. Enabling the money feature for the internet will lead to more use cases. > This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it. Looking at how big open source is today, or content sharing (youtube, blogs, etc.), I don't think I can agree with you
- jfengel 4y agoI always read that as "wasn't it great when the Internet was mostly nerds exactly like me, and all the things people created had me in their target audience?" There's plenty of "weird interests" on the Internet. More of it than ever. It's harder to find your specific thing... but not that hard. If the centaur furries and left-handed pickleball players can do it, so can you.