Notices by sneedy maccreedy (crumbleneedy@aus.social)

@Wolven to everyone responding to this with 'and you're surprised?' and other patronizing bullshit - spare us bro

@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick i make a decent amount of money but i also live in a country (australia) where cost of living (esp housing) is fairly high, so subscribing to each and every outlet i find valuable would bankrupt me. it's not a realistic option for non-rich people here and probably in many other countries.

@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick streaming services are fragmenting, the number of media outlets, podcasts, newsletters etc that i could potentially subscribe to grows daily - here, in the US (where i'm from originally), europe, etc etc. it's not scalable for consumers.

@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick 'why couldn't?' maybe someone could, but nobody is, the infrastructure (means of bundling multiple outlets across different platforms, collecting payments, app(s) for consuming, etc) doesn't exist, and in the meantime, the trends are going in the opposite direction, so making it necessary for a content provider to charge in order to stay in business means putting more content out of reach of more people.

@ajsadauskas apart from the awfulness of thinking he can turn 'x' into an american wechat, the only reason for spending $44B on a social media platform for trying to do exactly that is to buy its brand and audience, but he's destroyed the brand and driven most of the audience away, turning it into a rightwing cesspool with a shiteful ux. astonishing.