The economic model needs to incorporate incentives and disincentives on part of the publisher/platform AND the reader/commenter, while driving interoperability across the publishers/platforms. Everything is a silo, everyone an island. That's the problem with the internet's open and free model. Once you land somewhere, you're locked in. There's really no easy way out. Worse, risk is totally imbalanced, which is why we're in this sad state of societal sociopathy and sycophancy. So it ends up neither open nor free; rather the opposite. Been studying network models of all type (app, control, infrastructure layers across text, voice, video, data/content, 1-way, 2-way) for 30+ years and can tell you that none of the AT or federated stuff will scale or be sustainable until the above is addressed.
BTW, the tech problems are precisely because there is no north-south incentive/disincentive system between the layers, nor one east-west between or across the core and edge boundaries. If something like that existed we'd all be living in an 8k video, 24bit audio world right now! Alas, we're stuck in an IPv4, substandard tech world that seemed revolutionary 30 years ago!
Hello. I'm looking forward to your thoughts...but I'm a reader not listener! When you do a transcript I would love the opportunity to read it. Thanks very much.
Kudos to you, Elle, for trying profit-sharing! I hope it works for you financially over the long term. As for the subscription model, it makes things less accessible for those with lesser means (in this country and certainly the global majority); it's like an exclusivity model that has its own problems. Good on New_ Public for exploring all this! I'm sure you're in conversation with Nathan Schneider and the Open Collective. I just found his Beautiful Solutions so haven't read it yet – wonder if it addresses the business model question (https://nathanschneider.info/books/).
The economic model needs to incorporate incentives and disincentives on part of the publisher/platform AND the reader/commenter, while driving interoperability across the publishers/platforms. Everything is a silo, everyone an island. That's the problem with the internet's open and free model. Once you land somewhere, you're locked in. There's really no easy way out. Worse, risk is totally imbalanced, which is why we're in this sad state of societal sociopathy and sycophancy. So it ends up neither open nor free; rather the opposite. Been studying network models of all type (app, control, infrastructure layers across text, voice, video, data/content, 1-way, 2-way) for 30+ years and can tell you that none of the AT or federated stuff will scale or be sustainable until the above is addressed.
BTW, the tech problems are precisely because there is no north-south incentive/disincentive system between the layers, nor one east-west between or across the core and edge boundaries. If something like that existed we'd all be living in an 8k video, 24bit audio world right now! Alas, we're stuck in an IPv4, substandard tech world that seemed revolutionary 30 years ago!
Elle,
Pleasure to connect with you.
I joined in media res and will circle back to see what I missed.
Very interested in reading your Substack; have a similar worldview.
-Jerry
Hello. I'm looking forward to your thoughts...but I'm a reader not listener! When you do a transcript I would love the opportunity to read it. Thanks very much.
Terry
Kudos to you, Elle, for trying profit-sharing! I hope it works for you financially over the long term. As for the subscription model, it makes things less accessible for those with lesser means (in this country and certainly the global majority); it's like an exclusivity model that has its own problems. Good on New_ Public for exploring all this! I'm sure you're in conversation with Nathan Schneider and the Open Collective. I just found his Beautiful Solutions so haven't read it yet – wonder if it addresses the business model question (https://nathanschneider.info/books/).