With the recent moves from #Twitter, #Reddit, and even #Youtube, I think it’s becoming clear that ads are not a sustainable business model in the long run (and yes, I know I run a YouTube channel funded by ads 😅)
I took a look at a few examples, at how this decline is also making the web worse for everyone, at alternative platforms, and tried to imagine what an internet without ads to fund content creation and big platforms could look like:
@thelinuxEXP I think (hope?) that in the future the content creators will cut the middleman and start doing the distribution themselves so they will be dealing with advertisers/sponsors directly.
So in your case, you'd be getting "your own" Peertube and your revenue could come from insertions instead of pre-rolls, or "gated" content for subscribers.
I also hope that we will see an easy way for consumers to set a monthly budget and just split among all those creators that we want to support.
You mentioned Odysee (which I think is crap) but one project that I think could do this was Brave and their BAT token. With the Brave model, users get a share of the revenue from ads, and they could (theoretically) pay it forward to the content creators. Because the first revenue is in USD, the price of the token doesn't really matter.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
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