Re:I Don't Like Medium
by nsonha on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:28AM
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what you describe only happens to a "social network" where it's not a marketplace of content but of social credits instead. What you describe will not happen to substack same way it did not happen to youtube: people are here to sell content and make money, instead of selling their personal brand to make money elsewhere.
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There are plenty of vapid self-aggrandizing talks on YouTube. Overacted stuff seems to have more success with the algorithm than slick marketer-style content, but I'm not sure that's an improvement.
I personally have more of an issue with people who have nothing interesting to sell, and make content to sell themselves intead. I dont have any quible with people who work hard to make and sell content. If you dont like their content you dont buy it, the martket is working.