We have this debate any time there's a new gravy train for online writing, and it's getting exasperating. Every new platform will reward a set of star writers in a POWER CLAW distribution, the early will cash in, and discovery is the unsolvable problem.https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1373392942170132480 …
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What rankles me in the Great Wheel of Online Publishing is not that we repeat the same debates about it each time, but that when these bloated platforms inevitably disappear they take entire communities and comment histories with them. And those have more value than the writing
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Wasn’t that the last era tho? I don’t understand this is any different than having a webpage on the World Wide Web
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It's just a half-assed reworking of the web behind a paywall.
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We see the same problem in Art (as I am sure
@Pinboard is *exquisitely* aware.) There are more excellent painters, photographers, sculptors, etc, than there is a market for. Like 100x more, even if you only include the ones who are actually good. 1/ - Show replies
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The fact that anyone can publish anything online is also the great tragedy of our age though.
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This time though there will be more learn-ed machines involved. I’m sure that will make it work this time.
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