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Must everything be a profit center?

2025-05-28 18:41:51.645328+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

I saw yesterday, someone saying they were blocking/unfollowing/whatever Anil Dash because his web site did the whole wait a few seconds and then pop up the "subscribe to my email list!" thing, and today Anil Dash wrote:

At a certain point you’re asking everyone to take a vow of poverty, unsustainability, or irrelevance. By all means, hold people to an ethical standard, and then beyond that, get over your aesthetics.

and some content has moved domains and URLs over the years, but I'm at over 3 decades of publishing stuff on the web, and longer before that paying for a phone line so I could host a BBS, without pestering you for your email address or your "real name" or whatever, and I'm thinking about what differing notions of why we maintain online presences.

[ related topics: Ethics Woodworking ]

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#Comment Re: Must everything be a profit center? made: 2025-05-28 19:55:02.867472+02 by: John Anderson

Relevant Masto content: https://phire.place/@phire/114582817706308128

#Comment Re: Must everything be a profit center? made: 2025-05-28 21:08:33.853991+02 by: Dan Lyke

For posterity, and because that is 100% on, it's jenny (phire) noting that:

the degree to which the internet economy runs on self-promotion and the amount of angst and anxiety self-promotion causes for most people with humility and self-awareness explains a lot about the state we’re in tbh tbqh

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