What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss
Adam Neely on "quitting #youtube " puts two ideas together (that I hadn’t) and implicitly asks “what if the new platform/economy fails you”
Longevity and freedom from traditional gatekeepers. The content-creator economy fails on these promises.
Burn out is baked in and ignoring the traditional gate-keepers is at your own very serious risk.
The world is the same, tech is just milking us.
It’s normal to feel suspicious of new social media when we’re so used to propriety software by publicly traded companies of the likes of Facebook.
@CowsLookLikeMaps
Ha. That’s not what’s going on here.
The suspicion here is more along the lines of whether tech people can be trusted to make good things especially when some special tech idea is at the core. What are the chances that tech people just really like the idea of decentralised federated social media and haven’t really thought through whether it works well at scale?
If they had, there’d be documented analysis of this rather than just advocacy.