• Matth78@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand the down votes
    => I always read up and down votes as a tool to flag valuable posts. It feels like down vote on this one is about agreement with the news?

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      My guess: A lot of people are fed up with late-stage capitalism reaching its tendrils into everything good and turning it into dystopian garbage, and are justifiably wary of monetization taking root in one of the few online spaces that they still enjoy.

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      2 months ago

      It’s not a valuable post, a service like Club Sub will add nothing good to the Fediverse. My downvote should be seen as a deterrence for potential wannabe fulltime content creators. Stay on your YouTube, your Twitter, Insta, Reddit, Patreon and X.

      Stay away from my Fediverse!

      Also, it’s an article on The Verge. Which is by default low quality.

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        2 months ago

        Creators like illustrator, comic artist, cosplayer, or blogger needs money to sustain their works.

        Fediverse is not anti creators. There are a lot of attempt (especially Japanese fediverse community) to embrace this demography.

        It’s possible to create pro-creator service without making fediverse succumb to corporate greed.

        After all, fediverse should be all about inclusivity. If you don’t like creators, just block them.

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          2 months ago

          creators are welcome to post in the fediverse and tag their paid platform so long as they respect the rules of whatever community they post in. everyone has to eat. turning the fediverse into a tansactional platform is just coporate social media with extra steps. the articles getting downvoted because its one step shy of a linkedin ad disguised as a post. if i wanted to read posts about the beauty of the grind or some other nonsese, i’d be on fucking twitter or facebook. this place exists specifically to not be those places.

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            2 months ago

            Again, fediverse is not monolith of culture.

            I’m not talking about the article itself, but there’s just too many people on Westwrn fediverse right now expecting everything to be free.

            A lot of fediverse instance in East Asian are more welcoming author, even if they post subscriber-only creation.

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              2 months ago

              the article ends on a pitch for an ai bot making your paid posts. it’s trash. the article itself is the kind of lazy trash you get when you start leaning into monitization. you’re right, the fediverse isnt a monolith, not even inside distinct cultural regions.

              for me at least. the answer to more media like this article appearing. so we grow an have more content and grow more. will be finding somewhere else to be. thats just the social media cycle. something cool gets made. a community starts forming. someone says “look at those idiots. dont they know how money works? a few of them could be making so much of it. i’ll show them how and make some myself too”. the rough edges of the space get smoothed out because if you want to make the site sucessful it should look more like how the sucessful spaces look. and a bunch of people move on to make something new again while bots have arguments with bots.

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      2 months ago

      It’s being downvoted because the entire tone is that the fediverse needs monetization, despite the fact that every single one of the pressures that resulted in the fediverse existing and being relevant resulted from money having undue influence on the experience to the detriment of users and usability.