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Trigs
@trigs
Sourcing quality content isn't a Warpcast specific problem. The fast majority of the online experience is devoid of quality content anymore. The web2 engagement model has made it so ppl are incentivized to post baity content: This content is designed to bait you into focusing your attention on it long enough for the creator to get paid by advertisers. Nowhere in this system is there an incentive that results in content viewers actually getting the information they need/want. Search for anything and you'll get endless pages of useless blogs, uninformed opinions, and pointless content. If I want to learn something I usually have to dig through forum discussions and Reddit threads for that small handful of ppl who actually have the information I'm looking for. Nothing about the modern Internet experience is designed to elevate that information so ppl can find it and the person who shared it gets recognition. This is the problem space we need to solve.
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Flynn Jameson
@flynnthemaestro
Couldn't agree more with you Trigs, my friend. I've been online for...21 years now, since i was a minor, who did not have a credit card or any sort of easy-to-use social network. I used blogging platforms like Xanga in the early-2000s, and then Tumblr from 2010-2017. I am not here to shill Tumblr - I think it's a terrible place full of toxic and negative behaviors. But what Tumblr did well - was helping people connect based on common interests. Their search algo was much better than Twitter's ever was/has been. Xanga lost to Myspace after blogging took a backseat to "Feeds" and "Walls" (Fb/IG & Twitter). I realized very quickly, once I started using Facebook, back in the day, that most people did not actually have anything of substance or consequence to contribute to any discussion or conversation. It's just a vapid way for people to stroke their own egos and hype up their superficial image. There's no space for intellectualism in the web2 space when they can just censor anyone they want
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