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pipo2342y ago· 2 in thread

True. There is some great content (blogs, OS software, books, p2p networks, public libraries, academia, government), but by and large that wasn't created with monetary incentives.

Could there be a way to sustainably make enough money from visitors without making it all suck?

kccqzyOP2y ago

I think there really needs to be a micro-transaction mechanism on the web, but unfortunately it was needed ten years ago and there still isn't one.

golem142y ago

Yes but the crypto folks didn't do that, they were busy chasing nfts.

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shadowgovt2y ago· 1 in thread

> turns out there's little free, non-commercial, high quality content on the web.

Well, sure. Who pays for it?

kccqzyOP2y ago

No one. That's why I commented to make the point that Google should not refuse to crawl commercial content.

chongli2y ago

It turns out there's little free, non-commercial, high quality content on the web.

I disagree. I think there's a lot of it out there, in the form of blogs and small forums. It's just really hard to find, like mining for gold in the Super Pit [1]. You need to sift through mountains of rubble to find tiny amounts of gold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Pit_gold_mine

whywhywhydude2y ago

It’s certainly possible. Wikipedia is free. It won’t be too hard to replicate wikipedia’s model to create a Reddit replica.

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