july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I suspect a lot of people here will read this and think “web3 solves this.” But the problem isn’t one of decentralization or centralization. It’s one of incentives and convenience. A demand for convenience has shifted incentives for products to be subscription based.

It’s subscription fatigue, essentially 

Then: i.e. DVDs in a world where ownership was cumbersome, streaming was a great innovation that made sense

Now: in a world where I have to pay for rent for everything- it’d be nice to own the digital land I plow on once again.

We also must remember that we bought the DVD or CD, but that purchase gave us a license to play the movie or music, not to "own it".  We basically bought a piece of plastic with a license. The best part? If the company disappears, you can still play it if you have the hardware. What would happen to all the digital stuff we are not archiving as a society?

Digital archiving is a real thing, especially for video games, where lots of old copies have been lost. Interestingly, the piracy of the games is achieving archiving thanks to the scene, which is at least the beauty of irony.