‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
Reddit is apparently seeking to strike deals with big AI companies.
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this comment is aimed at those future "just passing through" visitors, who are still on the fence with regards to the fediverse.
any internet power user will know, and be able to tell you that the internet feels wrong as of late. everything that you try to use is slightly broken for some reason. why is it becoming harder to use basic services that we took for granted 5 years ago?
unfortunately, the internet is changing once again, and it's time to pick a side.
you can side with big corpo, stay in their walled ecosystems, and embrace enshittification.
or, you can side with the fediverse, break out of your silo, and take control of your own means of content participation.
the choice is yours.
if you like following concepts or "things" (reddit-style), then try here: https://join-lemmy.org/
or, if you prefer following individuals or "trends" (twitter-style), then try here: https://joinmastodon.org/
Oh the irony
yeah this is exactly the point lol. 😅
it's so hard to escape out of the walled ecosystems because so much of our content is already written in these places, and so even if fediverse grows exponentially, it will still take at least a decade of content creation for "free/libre" content to outpace the old silos.
but we have to start now, to get to that future.
I mean, good journalism costs money and journalists deserve a living wage. Everyone hates ads, so what does that leave reputable sites that don't want to just be shills?
Maybe for that specific article it's ironic, but it's not like the Wired web page is bothering to check what the headline it's serving is before asking readers to sign up.
"Free and open internet" still costs a ton of money. Not everyone is able, nor should be expected to volunteer their time to provide content or services to others for free.
you're right, and i think that the thing that is being called out in the screenshot is not the money making per se, but the doom loop that everyone is forced to experience when trying to perform any basic information lookup using the internet in 2023. it goes something like this.
this doom loop has to stop. yes, people and businesses need to make money under the current economic system we live in. but it doesn't have to be like this.
but you know something? we all know where this is going.
some ""visionary"" san fran tech bro startup will have the "genius" idea of offering an interface between journo websites and customers, by offering a one-stop subscription shop. pay the tech bros once, they grant you access to all sites.
not unlike how uber operates as an interface between taxi drivers and customers, or how airbnb offers an interface between short term lets and customers, or how amazon offers an interface between cheap plastic vendors and customers, or how netflix operates as an interface between media content and customers, or how...
...the wheel turns.
Haha fuck the corponet!