Zach Weinersmith on Nostr: So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created ...
So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.
Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.
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