Gregory's ServerSo @mike is "looking around corners that @coachtony can't see yet".
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 "What I love about the demise of Twitter and Facebook ... they don't have to go all the way to the grave ... even Google ... none of them are guaranteed to exist at the level of monopoly power ... such an exciting for entrepreneurs!" I so very much agree on what they are saying about #entrepreneurship and the #fediverse: it feels like the world is suddenly wide open, and so many things we couldn't do in at least 15 years are entirely possible again. And, because tech advanced and users advanced, we can do far more. I wouldn't go as far as predicting the demise of the platform monopolies, but certainly their model seem to be running out of room where to go. "We are in the 3rd business model era of the internet. Everything had to be free. Then everything was ad-driven ... now we have seen the limits of this... maybe we should pay for what we value."  @J12t @mike @coachtony This is, in part, why I diversified one of our websites into print in 2004 (might have been a first? I know there was Yahoo! Internet Life before us, but I think that was licensing). Many could see the limits then with online advertising and it has worsened in the last 20 years. @coachtony gives this advice when exploring the fediverse as a business: "Give up all the growth hacking nonsense. The Fediverse is a place to go make real relationships." /cc @mike  @J12t @coachtony @mike public television model? public radio model? public social medium model? hosted by your local library? tax me for that, please, I'd still volunteer a few weekends to babysit that infrastructure. Worthless information wants to be free. Valuable information wants to be dear. I prefer to think of it this way: information that is good for you is dear. Information that is good for somebody else, at your expense, is given to you for free. |
"Seeing a piece of content and then being able to recommend it [to others], is that highest-order bit for social media, the best calling, a genuinely positive thing that it could do in the world."
And then an example: "What algorithm could understand the content on entrepreneurship on Medium better than [a very experienced entrepreneur like Mike] could?"
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