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Topic	Would you say the Internet is less about communities, and more about audiences?
ItsKaljinyuTime 05/22/21 4:14:05 PM #1:	Has the Internet shifted from being about communities to being about audiences? It used to be about forming communities, now it's about gathering audiences. Nothing's changed, everything is the same as it always was. No, in fact the Internet is more about communities and less about audiences than it was in the past. Has the Internet shifted from being about communities to being about audiences? - Results (18 votes) It used to be about forming communities, now it's about gathering audiences. 50% (9 votes) 9 Nothing's changed, everything is the same as it always was. 38.89% (7 votes) 7 No, in fact the Internet is more about communities and less about audiences than it was in the past. 11.11% (2 votes) 2 I don't need to tell you that the forum is a dead format. But I mean communities in general. Up through to maybe the early to mid 2010s, shortly before phoneposting took off, the focus was on Internet communities. Today, it doesn't seem like there are communities. Just content creators and their followers. I think that's on purpose. I think it's meant to be the driving engine behind "Web 3.0" because that's what's most profitable. You own a platform. People on your platform make content. People on your platform then gather massive audiences. Advertisers pay you for that kind of foot traffic. Maybe you cut the content creators some of the dough. But how much money do advertisers have to throw around? I'm always skipping ads. I feel like this has to be a bubble. Why are advertisers paying so much for what I can only assume is earning them no new customers? --- Kaljinyu <cite>ItsKaljinyuTime posted [p:954188888] in Would you ... [t:79473087]...</cite> <quote> Has the Internet shifted from being about communities to being about audiences? It used to be about forming communities, now it's about gathering audiences. Nothing's changed, everything is the same as it always was. No, in fact the Internet is more about communities and less about audiences than it was in the past. Vote View Results Has the Internet shifted from being about communities to being about audiences? - Results (18 votes) It used to be about forming communities, now it's about gathering audiences. 50% (9 votes) 9 Nothing's changed, everything is the same as it always was. 38.89% (7 votes) 7 No, in fact the Internet is more about communities and less about audiences than it was in the past. 11.11% (2 votes) 2 Show Voting Form I don't need to tell you that the forum is a dead format. But I mean communities in general. Up through to maybe the early to mid 2010s, shortly before phoneposting took off, the focus was on Internet communities. Today, it doesn't seem like there are communities. Just content creators and their followers. I think that's on purpose. I think it's meant to be the driving engine behind "Web 3.0" because that's what's most profitable. You own a platform. People on your platform make content. People on your platform then gather massive audiences. Advertisers pay you for that kind of foot traffic. Maybe you cut the content creators some of the dough. But how much money do advertisers have to throw around? I'm always skipping ads. I feel like this has to be a bubble. Why are advertisers paying so much for what I can only assume is earning them no new customers? --- Kaljinyu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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