• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hence why the people on the internet needs to reject people coming here to profit.

    There’s no middle ground in trying to keep the internet good and having it be a platform to hock stuff.

    We should go back to the roots. Promote collaboration and be hostile to those people trying to manufacture scarcity online

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      1 year ago

      I get the spirit of that, but actual creators (not executives and investors) still need money. We can’t fully rid the internet of monetizable platforms without harming them.

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        1 year ago

        For sure. We all need money. But I’m not willing to accept all the stuff that comes with it. Which is why I believe there isn’t a middle ground. I think what the internet could be and evolve into is much greater than some creator making money by exploiting its spaces.

        But also, they can make money in what I’m proposing. What I’m saying is it shouldn’t be a place where that is the creators main motivation for being here.

        These creators end up with the same behaviors as any Spotify, twitter, Facebook executive. There are inherent barriers with modern online creators that work against the good internet we all want. Its insidious and not as evident as it is with the bigger players. But they are all the same.