I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars “web3”

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s not clear to me that media distribution and payment need to follow the same channels.

    For instance, classic TV uses completely separate pathways for distributing media to users (via broadcast radio signals) and collecting revenues. Commercial TV stations run advertisements; US-style public TV stations attract contributors and sponsors; UK BBC-style public TV stations have government funding.

    (And the BBC produces good material — not only BBC World Service, but also Doctor Who.)

    Platforms such as YouTube collapse all of this into a single service for convenience. And then “YouTubers” get the mistaken impression that they’re entitled to it, and fuss when they are “demonetized”.

    (“Demonetization” just means “the platform doesn’t think its advertisers want to be associated with you; and the advertisers are paying to have the platform make that decision.”)

    • anders@rytter.me
      2·
      2 years ago

      @fubo yeah that’s true but why not improve things. making it more convenient is better IMO and we have the technologies to do it.

      • fubo@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        If someone is providing convenience as a service, they get to collect a share of revenue from it, and they get to decide whether you get to use their service at all — an opportunity for censorship.

        If I were in the video business (which I’m not; so I am ignorant!) I would look to distribute video via a service similar to a streaming/dynamic version of BitTorrent; and find a way to automate placement of video ads into the stream. Major tech companies shouldn’t need to be involved at all; nothing about this should need large server or network capacity — for the same reason that torrent servers don’t.

        • anders@rytter.me
          2·
          2 years ago

          @fubo thats where i think crypto is great such as how LBRY does it. you can earn money and no one has the power to demonetize you.

          • fubo@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            If it becomes popular, what prevents the goat porn people from spamming it and making good content undiscoverable?