The User Always Loses
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The User Always Loses
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#2> blogging take off as a shared response to the US invasion of Iraq
Blogging took off because half the worlds population started having access to the internet in the early 2000s. That seems incredibly myopic and US centric.
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#3I mean... Users wrote us. A User even wrote you!
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#5The user always loses because the user is not the paying customer. Advertisers, surveillance agencies, and propagandists are the paying customers. Businesses serve the paying customer, not the “user” who in this model is the product.
This is not much better than old media really, which was always mostly ad supported. Media has always been a deflationary race to the bottom. When one player offers something cheap or free everyone else must follow suit and the economic model collapses. The cheapest crap and/or content with ulterior motives funded by someone else wins.
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#6> blogging take off as a shared response to the US invasion of Iraq Blogging took off because half the worlds population started having access to the internet in the early 2000s. That seems incredibly myopic and US centric.
I'd say either Blogger or Livejournal was the coming of age for blogging, the Iraq War had nothing to do with that, those things just happened around the same time without any direct connection between the two. The vast majority of blogs had totally different content.
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#7So don't be a user. Self host and federate. The internet of the 90s is still alive if you step outside the walled gardens.
And when you use other's services, like, say, reading an article hosted at 'thenation.com', a site which attempts to block you from reading unless you run their javascript and CSS, use a browser with tools that allow you to toggle things like JS and CSS to read it anyway. Then re-share the article as plain text, https://write.as/tg3o7a6dfa5ck.md
And always remember: Lurking is good, https://i.imgur.com/7NYQ17y.mp4
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#9I mean... Users wrote us. A User even wrote you!
No one user wrote me! I’m worth millions of their man-years!
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#10> blogging take off as a shared response to the US invasion of Iraq Blogging took off because half the worlds population started having access to the internet in the early 2000s. That seems incredibly myopic and US centric.
I'd say either Blogger or Livejournal was the coming of age for blogging, the Iraq War had nothing to do with that, those things just happened around the same time without any direct connection between the two. The vast majority of blogs had totally different content.
Yeah, large-scale blogging was part of Web 2.0/read-write web which came into being around the time that it became much easier for "ordinary people" to publish on the Web but prior to the real social media wave of Facebook/Twitter/etc.
The timing lines up fairly well with Gulf War II but I would personally never have drawn a connection.