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Great video @Nick @ The Linux Experiment ! I totally agree that the modern ad-bloated internet is unusable and it will definitely become worse. It is great you demonstrate alternative federated networks and actively use those to share your content too, thank you for that. This is also a very good that you emphasize that YouTube content (or any other content) has never been free and it has always been in return for your data and attention (ads). That is a really good analysis, but I would also like to encorage you to look even beyond that, on the root-cause of this urge for profits, which eventually ruins everything - the incentive to trade. We have to build a society, which fulfills at least basic needs for the people for surviving in this world, so they can have more time to create something meaningful, share with others and enjoy what they are doing (including creating more content they like for the alternative platforms), rather than dying at somewhat jobs just to have food and shelter.
There are TROM project and @Tio, who has been arguing for more than 10 years already that The TRADE is the origin of the most problems humanity faces today and that we have to oppose ever-increasing persuit of profit. They recenly released a 5 hours long documentary, describing this problem in great details and discussing the possible solutions to it, such as trade-free movement. I would like to gratefully ask you to spend a bit of your time on it and help to spread the word, since it seems like you are not indifferent to the future of the internet and, I am sure, to the future of humanity too.
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in reply to Roma • •I am pleasantly surprised by @Nick @ The Linux Experiment 's conclusion and the fact that he had the decency and humility to accept that even what he does now, relying on ads, is not a healthy way of moving forward and that the best would be to perhaps support the creators via donations. Else the incentive is really bad. I was skeptical about this video but I gained more respect for the guy.
And I don't just talk about this, I have been creating content online for more than 15 years now. I wrote some 30 books, released 2 huge documentaries, made a lot of videos, and continue to do more. All scientific and sourced till they bleed. All free.
But fuck me, how in the fucking world can I "make it" when it takes me a year to write a book, 3 years to make a documentary....I can't pump 5 books a month and a documentary every week. Even if I wanted to rely on the ads-model, I would be totally fucked.
This is a complicated situation and there are
... show moreI am pleasantly surprised by @Nick @ The Linux Experiment 's conclusion and the fact that he had the decency and humility to accept that even what he does now, relying on ads, is not a healthy way of moving forward and that the best would be to perhaps support the creators via donations. Else the incentive is really bad. I was skeptical about this video but I gained more respect for the guy.
And I don't just talk about this, I have been creating content online for more than 15 years now. I wrote some 30 books, released 2 huge documentaries, made a lot of videos, and continue to do more. All scientific and sourced till they bleed. All free.
But fuck me, how in the fucking world can I "make it" when it takes me a year to write a book, 3 years to make a documentary....I can't pump 5 books a month and a documentary every week. Even if I wanted to rely on the ads-model, I would be totally fucked.
This is a complicated situation and there are no immediate solutions, but we must be wise and think more broadly like @Roma is saying: what society have we built that we have to struggle to even survive and have no time to create good shit? Perhaps it is time to at least "demand" that us as humans have our basic needs met, for free, and then we can build communities, and content, and help others and evolve in a better direction. Because at the end of the day ads or money are not like energy sources you plug into the Internet machine to keep it working, they are "incentives" for humans. And they are bad incentives. Humans created the Internet. And if we take care of humans, they can take care of the Internet.
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in reply to Tio • • •Basically, as long as the current model holds, I’ll use the platform it allowed me to access, to raise awareness about Linux and free software. Once it crumbles, or as it crumbles, I’ll try to adapt!
If I can’t keep doing it as a job, so be it!
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