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 hey Nick, I liked the video but one big part you're leaving out is that these businesses are not just wanting to keep profitable. They have shareholders to appease, and they want everything to be more profitable year over year.
It's no longer a matter of having enough ads to keep the company afloat and make some revenue, nowadays it's a squeeze for maximum profit over everything else.
Both users and content creators are just a resource for them to exploit for as much profit as they can: content creators bring in the views, but they are as much cattle as the viewers.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
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