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I think people do this now already. How many people do you know that host their content on open platforms?
by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
I think people do this now already. How many people do you know that host their content on open platforms?
- mrkramer 4y agoFor example there are thousands of blogs out there but the question is how much are they consumed by people. Overall I would say majority of people(casual users) still use Open Web to find general information and some smaller percentage of Web users use it to find more specific and specialized information, those are power users. The reason for all this is that they(casual users) think Google is the Internet and that the information is out there sort of hosted on Google for them to find it. I think the Web users need to develop more personal connections(following) to websites and not just rely on Google to spit out information for them. For example some ways of doing that are: Website's comments section which is out there for users to engage with each other and with the website operator, another way is RSS/Atom feeds, newsletters etc.
- koyanisqatsi 4y agoCuration is the main problem. Google's promise was automatic curation based on the link metadata created by people but that's starting to fail as they try to infer intent from other signals fed into large ML models. I'm not sure if this is solvable problem in the current ecosystem. The commercial web is now pretty much set in stone and I don't think there is a way around the juggernauts and their data centers.