Buzzfeed collapsed. Twitter is dying. Youtube is full of ads. Meta is laying off ppl. You know what no one talks about? Peak Collective Attention. People who m

Buzzfeed collapsed. Twitter is dying. Youtube is full of ads. Meta is laying off ppl. You know what no one talks about? Peak Collective Attention. People who make content of any kind, always talk about how they are going draw Attention to themselves and what are methods help them. Spammers talk the same way. But how much Attention actually exists? If you are producing more Content than there is Monetizable Attention, things will break down. It doesnt matter what the ranking algo is. It doesnt matter who owns the broadcaster. It doesnt matter whether its centralized or decentralized. Attention and its scarcity has to be addressed by any system designer.