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:

https://youtu.be/NdTLj-xcqGM

A very old electrical control box in #Melbourne’s #cbd is decorated by passers by, by looks.

Love the message on the side;

“Search for your <electric> dancing self”

#doofdoof 🪩

#melbourne #victoria #Narrm #tram #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

All-terrain wheelchairs arrive at U.S. parks: ‘This is life-changing’. Georgia and South Dakota are the latest states to provide off-road wheelchairs on public trails.

https://wapo.st/3GRo4RN

#Accessibility #Disability

This may be about the coolest damn photograph I've ever seen!

#MtRainier #Scenic

(Photo by Lisa Bishop)