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I'm old enough to remember when people did this for the joy of teaching and sharing knowledge, not branding and click rate.

• beefield 3y ago
  And the signal to noise ratio was way better then. It's a bit weird with these folks so worried about content creators, almost like I'm browsing a different internet with them. In my internet whenever I need to find some actually useful information, I almost always go to a content creator who is not ( primarily) paid via ads. HN, reddit, SO, wikipedia etc. The vast, vast majority of ad funded content is such utter crap that I am pretty confident whatever makes ad driven business worse makes internet better as a whole.
• zo1 3y ago
  Yes but back then - people actually came to read what you shared. You put that knowledge out there and for a brief moment while they were reading the thing you enjoyed creating you both shared a plane of existence.
• reportgunner 3y ago
  Where are they now though ?
  • cvak 3y ago
    They exist, but because they don't care about SEO, you can't find them in google.