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Would you be willing to do free work for a corporate entity that explicitly financializes that work's benefits? Would you be willing to do free work for a corp

• tome 2mo ago
  > Would you be willing to do free work for a corporate entity that explicitly financializes that work's benefits? Yes, that was one of the things that I hope happens with the open source software I write. > Would you be willing to do free work for a corporate entity whose entire business model is making sure they sit as a gatekeeper between your free work and others who would benefit from your work? Sure, that's what doing SEO on one's own blog is, isn't it? > For some it's demoralizing to know that your work will be broken down and atomized into language model mush, and the credit will go to the computer. I think this is probably the crux: that writing is no longer discoverable because people aren't using search engines any more. It would be interesting to put some hard numbers on that. I reckon writing is still more discoverable (in absolute numbers) than it was when blogs first took off (over 20 years ago?)