Oh yeah. I keep forgetting people will just scam the shit out of shit posts. There already was one dude on threads posting random pictures of musicians he found on the internet. Was even courteous enough to rat himself out by leaving the getty images watermarks in plain sight and nice enough to make it obvious he was using alts and self voting the stolen Bieber pics. Probably spent two weeks working out the plans for that heist.
So we got dbuzz and threads now, both shortform platforms, and both are not used very much when you factor in the "demand" for shortform stemming from the voice of the community over the years. Similar to how people for years people demanded chat and direct messaging, so peakd put it right up at the top there, and nobody used it. I'm noticing a pattern. How much real demand is there for a shitpost/sharing option? People will always come say, yeah great idea! Go through all that effort and it just sits there.
And it wasn't just the ads pushing scammy crypto junk and gambling addiction that pushed me away. Was the combination of everything that was so far beyond out of touch I didn't want any part of it. That branding and those crypto products don't gel with mine. The tribalism runs deep. You don't go to twitter to become a bird. Totally wrong market. Totally out of the loop. And that's the beauty of decentralization. I don't have to like it. I don't have to use it. I'm not forced. It's their product, not mine. If I don't want Coke, I won't buy Coke. This is fine. Totally normal.
Monetizing my content then handing me the shitty end of the stick doesn't sit well with me either. I could build a bridge to my own site filled with ads and cut them right out of it if that's what I wanted out of life. Never wanted to work for advertisers, for several reasons, and still don't. That's well documented and I'm not just going to change for a few pennies worth of crypto I most likely wouldn't even see. And for sure I'm not going to buy tokens in order to see a bigger piece of the ad revenue pie, because it doesn't make sense to me to buy the money generated from my efforts in advance, in order to earn it back over time, maybe, then call that "being paid." I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.
It just doesn't work for me, dude. If others like the things I don't, that's fine, too. I'm not going to stop anyone. I adore this system where I work and half the revenue my work generates goes back to those interested enough to support it. I still get 100% of what's mine with this system. I could ramble on about how in the music industry the artists only get about 12%, while those supporting them get nothing but a hole in the wallet, yadda yadda yadda, this comment is already too long, and that's only one example of the ripoff.
And pardon my edits, busy today, got a lot of things on my mind, and trying to juggle too much shit at once, which is pretty much the norm for me these days.