Let email, RSS, indie blogs and a return to ownership of where you share your best ideas (free from algos de-ranking interesting stuff) flourish once again
Love this post, Adam, and as a social OG, agree with so much of it. Also: I was unceremoniously suspended by Twitter, too! Still not back in. Pretty much given up.
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Sorry, *Facebook* has forbidden Canadians from sharing links to news articles on their platform, *not* the government. This seems a pretty big-tech friendly framing of this issue . The law isn't even in effect yet, and Facebook came to an arrangement in other jurisdictions on exactly this same issue (e.g., Australia).
The social media platforms rely on the creation and sharing of quality journalism to create engagement, and have, over the last decade, slowly (or quickly!) diverted the advertising revenue that *used* to accrue to the journalistic enterprises that produce that journalism, so why is it inconceivable that some of that advertising revenue generated by it on these platforms should revert back to the content producers that helped generate the views that produce it? They do it for "influencer" content., after all, and I'd argue that preserving a robust journalism environment is far more important.
Sorry, I really enjoy your stuff, but this framing is grossly unfair and incorrect. At *worst*, the government is guilty of trying to shore up a journalism industry that is suffering due to the monopsony power of the social media platforms (the very topic of your post!), unlike the US government that has allowed local journalism to die on the vine as Private Equity firms snarf it up and destroys it. It's the platforms that are using that power to deny Canadians the right to share links to journalistic media, not the government.
I've been actively moving my LinkedIn connections to Substack--inviting historic contacts and converting new ones to subscriptions. It's going very well so far. People enjoy my writing and I'm making more mutually beneficial true connections.
Thoughts on censorship resistant decentralized tech like Nostr? I'm still surprised people move from one centralized platform to another and then are surprised when the platform pulls the plug on them #nostr
yeah I mean I think they're trying to create something where the value doesn't entirely go away if the rules are changed or you can take the network with you
Substack is a breath of fresh air and I really love how the keep building with the focus on the community / communities.
Love this post, Adam, and as a social OG, agree with so much of it. Also: I was unceremoniously suspended by Twitter, too! Still not back in. Pretty much given up.
lame, I would fight it and at least share links to your other posts, try and nudge your community to email (always be selling)
Sorry, *Facebook* has forbidden Canadians from sharing links to news articles on their platform, *not* the government. This seems a pretty big-tech friendly framing of this issue . The law isn't even in effect yet, and Facebook came to an arrangement in other jurisdictions on exactly this same issue (e.g., Australia).
The social media platforms rely on the creation and sharing of quality journalism to create engagement, and have, over the last decade, slowly (or quickly!) diverted the advertising revenue that *used* to accrue to the journalistic enterprises that produce that journalism, so why is it inconceivable that some of that advertising revenue generated by it on these platforms should revert back to the content producers that helped generate the views that produce it? They do it for "influencer" content., after all, and I'd argue that preserving a robust journalism environment is far more important.
Sorry, I really enjoy your stuff, but this framing is grossly unfair and incorrect. At *worst*, the government is guilty of trying to shore up a journalism industry that is suffering due to the monopsony power of the social media platforms (the very topic of your post!), unlike the US government that has allowed local journalism to die on the vine as Private Equity firms snarf it up and destroys it. It's the platforms that are using that power to deny Canadians the right to share links to journalistic media, not the government.
Thanks for commenting Ian I appreciate your perspective
Great post and I'm all in on this.
I've been actively moving my LinkedIn connections to Substack--inviting historic contacts and converting new ones to subscriptions. It's going very well so far. People enjoy my writing and I'm making more mutually beneficial true connections.
Great post!
Thoughts on censorship resistant decentralized tech like Nostr? I'm still surprised people move from one centralized platform to another and then are surprised when the platform pulls the plug on them #nostr
yeah I mean I think they're trying to create something where the value doesn't entirely go away if the rules are changed or you can take the network with you