thats praxis baby!!!!!!!
Man y'all ever think about how incredibly stupid it is that the internet is almost entirely financed by advertising. Like, imagine if busses were only paid for using the revenue from bus ads. And if not enough people looked at the ads for Target or a legal firm specializing in slip-and-falls, then their bus route stopped existing. How stupid would that be. That's basically what we're doing right now, but with online.
Sep 3, 2018 at 3:13pmTusky
Show threadEdwxrd vxn XdxrkxsSep 3, 2018

@DayGloChainsaw It was exactly the same with newpapers. They were all kept afloat by the advertising revenue from, among other things, the glossy grocery store flyers (that I'm not convinced anyone ever read.) When the advertisement went elsewhere, the newspapers started to die.

Advertisement is terrifyingly important!

Show threadReality Loser☑️Sep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw We just need to get everyone to install adblock.
Show threadthats praxis baby!!!!!!!Sep 3, 2018
@geotrill I feel like that's a good idea in the long term but in the short-term it would hurt small independent sites a lot more than it would hurt say, Google
Show threadReality Loser☑️Sep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw You can disable ad-block on certain sites if you want.
Show threadWTF FloridaSep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw Yeah, we're just figuring it all out as we go.
Show threadMx Aria StewartSep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw Every damn day.
Show threadBob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅Sep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw Also old media of newspapers, radio and TV was funded largely in the same manner
Show threadthats praxis baby!!!!!!!Sep 3, 2018
@bob ya and look how that turned out. Newspapers are dying and TV is all but forced to run the most ghoulish shit imaginable and dance to whoever can play the most expensive tune
Show threadMx Autumn Sep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw its both a sad and problematic issue. Various publishers are attempting paywalls to ensure they receive adequate funding but at the same time consumers have had information for “free” for so long that they have come to expect it and get rather aggressive if you try to change the status quo. Maybe decentralisation is part of the solution. I certainly hope so.
Show threadAral BalkanSep 3, 2018

@DayGloChainsaw And not just traditional display advertising but surveillance-based adtech. So all the buses have cameras and microphones on them and they're always recording where you embark and disembark and everything you say or do while on the bus.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Show threadMrs Mouse at workSep 3, 2018
@aral @DayGloChainsaw That's just the automated version of some guy following you around with a camera and a mic telling you where to shop.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Sep 3, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw monthly, I pay about $100 for my cable modem, about $300 for phones with internet service for my family, about $20 for Netflix, $10 for Youtube music, $100 for various other stuff (VPSs and the like). There’s an incredible amount of the internet that isn’t paid for by advertising. I do agree that some sites - twitter, FB, buzzfeed and so on, are indeed all paid by advertising, though.
Show threadSaint SoyboySep 10, 2018

@DayGloChainsaw i just use ad and script blockers and don't use websites that don't let me do that. sorry, i don't agree with the philosophy, i'm not a commodity, you don't just get to profit off of me

i know it's not perfect but it feels like it helps

Show threadAnarcho-FelinistSep 10, 2018
@DayGloChainsaw And it's a deep-rooted problem since it's not at *all* easy to do it yourself. You can set up the server side pretty painlessly with just about any computer but getting onto the network is almost impossible. The Backbone is not only remotely located but it's almost impossible to add new servers to it for a lot of various reasons.