While I really admire this, I can't help but think we live in an entirely different era.
How do you deal with content moderation?
The spammers/native advertisers generating useless content to make a few pennies?
How do you deal with content moderation?
The spammers/native advertisers generating useless content to make a few pennies?
On your own static site all content is written only by you. So there's nothing to moderate.
But people think it's an offense to pay $3 a month for X (Musks insufferableness notwithstanding), so slop is what they shall continue to receive.
> But people think it's an offense to pay $3 a month for X
$3 a month, or $8 a month, or $15 a month does not stop spam or advertising or bots as long as the profit is larger than that.
"The free interaction is great, but I love the best casino games on onlineslots.fun, amazing ever and I always love win cold hard cash 100% with no credit card sign up trial. Payday loans online."
to be spammed on every old phpBB/SMF forum or article comment section crawled on the web?
> no credit card sign up trial. Payday loans online
This is advertisement and scams. As long as there are enough suckers clicking through and leaving money at onlineslots.fun, spam will continue.
But if no one is willing to spend hundreds a year for web content that is not dominated by spam, ads, bots, etc., then spam, ads, and bots is what they will get.
Of course no one is willing to do that. For me to spend hundreds a year on any content, that content has to be valuable. If all you can guarantee is that there "won't be bots and spam", that is not enough.
The web has become all about pandering. But there are people finding success through cultivating instead of pandering. (I don't know if many Patreon users fit this description, but I'm sure that population is > 0)
There is likely some corner of the internet which is experiencing some of the things we complain about, but neither you, me, or any of us here feel/are invited.
I've been wondering very recently if these social cycles (like fashion, the tech pendulum) are less a cynical play by capitalists and collective amnesia by the young, and more a moral equivalent of molting, where we slough off our old skin and get a chance to grow and be shiny for a bit before everything settles back into normal again. Maybe that's why the other two hominids died out and we remained.