Den branche har de vildeste lobbyister med hvad de kan få politikerne til. Nu også med en ekstra streamingskat som bliver losset over på danske forbrugere.

Ah ja, den danske Slashdot. Der var jeg også virkelig meget og har stadig venner jeg mødte via sitet for over 20 år siden.

Har de nogen nærmere definition på hvad en streamingtjeneste er og hvor stor den skal være? Jeg abonnerer på et par mindre udenlandske tjenester og tvivler på de overhovedet kan administrere det beaukrariske overhead i sådan noget her og bare lukker for danske kunder. Har set det samme med EUs momsregler hvor mindre udenlandske tjenester og webshops simpelthen bare lukker for EU kunder fordi det er for besværligt.

Totally agree on the news and journalism part. I subscribe to three different publications, which gets expensive, but it is worth it. Many newssites have also started to hide their articles behind paywalls, which is understandable, but also make sharing and discussing news with others on social media harder. And since most people can’t afford to subscribe to several news outlets, they will be limited in their exposure to different viewpoints - unless that particular newspaper is really good at challenging its readers and not just giving them what they think they want.

Har været online siden slut 90’erne så det har været en stor del af mit liv i 25 år. Startende med anonyme chatrum, senere lærte man folk lidt bedre at kende via IRC og fik IRL venner derigennem. Med Facebook kom alle “ikke-nørderne” med også og det blev normalt at bruge sit rigtige navn online. Reddit blev en tilbagevenden til det anonyme og Reddit har jeg ikke rigtig set som et socialt medie, da man med få undtagelser ikke har bidt mærke i brugernavnet på dem man skrev med. Reddit har bare været en stor masse af en masse forskellig viden og erfaring, som virkelig har givet mig meget lærerig perspektiv at læse om hvordan andre mennesker lever i forskellige dele af verden. Særligt den sidste del frygter jeg lidt hvor skal komme fra hvis Reddit falder sammen. Det har været uundværligt i forhold til at komme ud af osteklokken, selvom Reddit også blev sin egen osteklokke i mange sammenhænge.

I think it is more like the protoweb. How this works is more similar to BBSes, Usenet, IRC networks and the like from 30 years ago. Truly distributed networks with no central controlling mechanism and the systems communicate by simply agreeing on the technical protocol. That was what the internet was designed for i the first place. The last couple of decades where everything has been centralized to a few big megacorps is an abomination.

George RR Martin was a fantastic short story writer in the 70s and 80s. Another benefit of short stories - writers usually finish those :D

Another recommendation of mine would be John Varley who was already popular in that time period and wrote some great progressive (for the time at least) stories.

I am often getting interesting stuff from the personal discover playlists on Spotify. Often it is very obscure vands with like a thousand listeners on last.fm, so I feel like I am being exposed new and upcoming bands and not just established names.

I think that will turn out to be really important in the long run. The gamification aspect of karma score let to posts and comments leaning more to the quick and funny, and less to long and thoughtful. Especially in bigger subreddits. And then bots started to just repost and reuse previous highly upvoted stuff to boost their numbers even further.

It would not crash and burn but rather be messy and decrease in quality gradually over time. Sort of like Twitter.

I am really conflicted on this. I agree in principal that Reddit shouldn’t benefit from my years of comments and posts, but I can’t count on how many times I have searched for something and found an old Reddit post or comment that was just what I needed.

Most of my Reddit comments or posts are probably not very useful, but some of it might be and I am not against other random people can find and read what I have written through the years. Reddit as a whole is a vast collection of good advice and insight that is valuable to preserve. Sure it might be archived on archive.org but that is hardly searchable for most people.