Politics is now driven by the needs of non-political advertisers; artistic culture is increasingly trivial; personal coherence is harder 13/
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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/
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Popular revolt against the advertising-based web, or technical collapse, within a few years? I hope so! 15/
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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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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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Once a very successful social network has stopped growing, it could start charging users for access. I hope twitter does this! 18/
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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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Attractive alternatives have suffered from the delusion that open source software makes everything free. 20/
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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/
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I think a p2p model would be helpful. People already pay for, and run, their own computers. So get rid of the servers and we're 67% there!
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Yes; there’s a lot of hard problems in that 33% :)
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