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To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model (www.economist.com)
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[–] 135 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I liked the web a lot more when it didn't have a business model.

YOU KIDS GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm still fucking ashamed, I was 9 and me and my sis had an ICQ friend. He was the same age as our IRL friend, had the same name, except it was a different guy someplace in Germany. Yet somehow the friendship a bit transcended that little nuance.

    And I wrote such horribly idiotic stuff.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And that was back when hosting, storage, and bandwidth were expensive. Those are basically free for text-based content now, and getting cheaper for audio and video. Nowadays, anything made by amateurs shouldn't really need a "business model" at all, and anything made by professionals could be damned cheap, if there were no middlemen taking the majority of the cut.

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