Hooray, internet
Good Song Club
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Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering payouts, devaluing work, and redirecting the lion’s share of rewards to the platforms hosting the work rather than the creators themselves.
Yancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
“Mari got me to pull the plug on my Sp*tify subscription recently and it has been liberating to not see the statistics and industry-imposed/applied rankings next to the names of the artists i listen to. staying away from social media has also been a great relief for similar feelings of inadequacy, doubt, and envy.”
Claire Rousay
... See moreRecalling the specifics now, I can see more clearly exactly what’s being lost. Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting.
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
I didn’t mind social media when it was just one aspect of the internet, and it was largely just for that first word, “social.” But it slowly became the everything place, and now it’s bite-sized versions of news, art, ads, politics, obituaries, health advice, crimes against humanity, kittens, low-rent humor, messages from friends, soft-core porn, go... See more
Ben Cooper • Investment Strategies — Radical Face Dot Com
instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence.
build a world that the RIGHT people — your kindred people — will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love... See more
build a world that the RIGHT people — your kindred people — will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love... See more
Gen Z Broke The Marketing Funnel
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/gen-z-broke-the-marketing-funnel
Threads is still a loss leader for Meta financially, though it can certainly afford to fund it indefinitely. Internally, I’m told execs are thinking about turning on ads in Threads sometime next year, though the exact plan is still up in the air.
Alex Heath • Threads hits 175 million users after a year
The enshittification happens like clock work.