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Recently I saw an article saying the whole middleman, or platform business is parasitic, on Substack.
It makes me think, yeah: they knows jack shit outside their expertise like each and every single programmer and person inside tech industry, innit?
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If what they did is a tiny podcast that had zero intention of monetise it, or to put it extremely, not even intented for viewing, it might makes sense.
But they posted their article on Substack, on Bluesky, for sharing, for viewing.
Which is not really a problem at all.
Then what's the problem?
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I personally thinks the problem is two fold, platform thinks as long as there's content, there will be viewer, and creator who thinks as long as they made things, there will be viewer.
Which, is not even true back in the old internet days.
"If a fallen tree was not witnesseds nor heard by anyone, does the tree really fall?"
The earlier days of internet are kinda like that.
Even before blog platforms, most of the time things got shared is via email forwarding, or in real life where you show things on the internet to your friends.
Which the author classified as "platform" as well.
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Yeah, middleman sucks, especially when they are basically doing jack shit about your hard work.
But, did you really think you can do all the publishing and distributing work by yourself?
...You can, but does that worth it?
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Most people are always saying that the word of mouth is the best of metric or stuff like that, but where did that come from?
People sharing on the internet forum, blogs, some personal homepage in the old days, and SNS if we're talking about recent days.
Even those are essensially "platforms".
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And if I'm going to "finish" the author's rest of article with a little thought theory......
The problem of hosting your stuff is really the least problematic parts of the entire "doing your business" part.
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The daunting part is never technological, is social, like the banking problem cryptobros claims to solve.
The interesting thing is, Nintendo is, in some way, trying to solve this problem for themselves.
Directs, homepages, own applications....
It's their current solution to not rely too much on those platform: by making one themselves.
But you already know the answer why they can afford to do this.
Nintendo is not a starting creator who just want to have rewards for their hard works.
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And on a tangent, I, myself is also facing a similiar problem.
You know I make R-18 games. But wanna guess how many people are willing to support my work?
Before I make a deal with my publisher, the number can be count with one hand, and you know what? I fucking can't thank them enough.
Doing all the marketing and publishing work myself is not impossible, it's just not worth it as a nobody.
Sure, major platform using their capital advantage to do shit without burden sucks major ass.
But if you really want to have a so-called "the same marketplace as everybody else"......
Even if you starting one yourself, eventually the phrase "塵も積もれば山となる" will hit you like a mountain.
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And I can say this confidently, no one is going to solve this, those who think they can and have the power to act will keep speedrunning the history like cryptobro.
It's not even a "captialism" thing, it's really just how society fucking works from the very beginning.
A reddit user said: "Kill yourself."
Also, if we are really going to put the blame of "why make technological work daunting"......
You probably should go blame each and every single person who made the code and enviroment of internet, back when www becomes a thing.
Oh, and probably blame people who write programs that exploit everything while we're on it.
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