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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      *Most of the internet* is paid for by advertisers—which is rapidly eroding our society, culture, and selves. It's an epic disaster. 12/

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Politics is now driven by the needs of non-political advertisers; artistic culture is increasingly trivial; personal coherence is harder 13/

      1 reply 8 retweets 19 likes
    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Arms race between ad tech, inventing ever-more-powerful ways spy on your browswing, and countermeasures, makes more&more web sites fail. 14/

      1 reply 7 retweets 8 likes
    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Popular revolt against the advertising-based web, or technical collapse, within a few years? I hope so! 15/

      3 replies 5 retweets 11 likes
    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      But what's the alternative? Users must pay. Via subscriptions, donations, or micropayments? But no one knows how to make these work. 16/

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      The highest-value sites are paywalled. Everyone hates that because it's a hassle to sign up, and you don't know if it's worth it. 17/

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Once a very successful social network has stopped growing, it could start charging users for access. I hope twitter does this! 18/

      4 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      New social networks are mainly VC-funded; but that only puts off the who-pays? question. VCs eventually want revenue. Profits, even! 19/

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Attractive alternatives have suffered from the delusion that open source software makes everything free. 20/

      3 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      A successful social network has to pay for servers; people to run the servers; for programmers to maintain & extend the software. 21/

      3 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
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      $$ to pay for a non-advertising social network has to come from users. http://app.net  tried the subscription model; it failed. 22/

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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          Several new social networks tried the donation model. Wikipedia is the only large site I can think of which makes this work. (How?) 22/

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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          Mastodon is donation-supported. If every user gave a few dollars per month at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786  it would succeed. 23/

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        1. Sebastian‏ @skglas 3 Apr 2017
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          It the assumption would be that it is sufficient to have a company to pay the fee to, maybe something more idealistic is required.

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        1. Sebastian‏ @skglas 3 Apr 2017
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          Financing something does not necessarily mean to finance for profits

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        1. Sebastian‏ @skglas 3 Apr 2017
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          And when financing for nonprofit, values and even some local connection may be required, people don't pay to "somewhere", but to sbdy known

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