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More users is likely not more expensive per user; especially not given how much cheaper compute is now compared to 20 years ago. Clearly market forces often le
by jabradoodle 3y ago
More users is likely not more expensive per user; especially not given how much cheaper compute is now compared to 20 years ago.
Clearly market forces often lead to a horrible product many of us don't like.
- sbarre 3y agoYeah sorry I just don't agree with that reasoning. Even if cost per user hasn't gone up (which I would actually bet it has, if we had a way to measure it), the total cost has gone up, and for a distributed non-commercial Internet you need to have a total cost, not a per-user cost, that is affordable for lots of people, not just for large market leaders, like it is today.
- jabradoodle 3y agoTo be fair, I don't agree with the original statement that the Internet started without adds, there were and still are some sites ran not for profit; but people always look to monetize. What I don't agree with is that the current state of affairs is necessary due to scale. We have adverts thrown in our faces and tracking everywhere we go, even on sites that could be profitable without it, simply because it is easy to do and almost all sites do it.
- sbarre 3y agoYes I agree with that, I think the over-reliance of tracking and ads has put us in a bad place, and has reduced the incentive and space to innovate. If all the time and money spent on figuring out tracking and ads had been put into micro-payments or distributed infrastructure, we'd be better off. But people want stuff "for free" and big companies don't want to give up control, so here we are.