jthewriter
Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:57AM (#15808391)
> my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up.
This is an important distinction. FB has programmed us to believe quantity is the goal, when quality probably should be. How many FB "friends" does the average user have meaningful relationships with? I'd speculate not many more than it's possible to maintain offline/without FB's "help".
Re:Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no ow...
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:43AM (#15808208)
But you'd have to supply work/capital to get it to the point of generating revenue.
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:57AM (#15620132)
Amen. If people aren't willing to pay for your content, then it's literally not worth paying for. You're still welcome to create it and distribute it for free. If you don't care that much, others probably don't either and we'll all be better off with less crap content swirling around out there.
The ad model has left us mired in a suffocating heap of crap content people claim has "value" because they're able to hack the system and get ad revenue from it. But in reality the content is secondary and just an excuse for the ads.