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RE: Why Does Leo Remind Me Of Splinterlands?
But now you share in the ad revenue, which is unheard of in social media. It's as pure web3 as it gets, the owners of the tokens...Are the owners of the platform. We all get rewarded, the more ads are served.
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It is not the first revenue share in social media. YouTube has done it for years. You may argue that YT isnt a social media site but make no mistake it is. Users interact with each other in a social way in order to keep eyeballs on the ads. It is just like every other social media site.
I would argue that it is the exact opposite of pure Web3. One of the basic fundamentals of Web3 is to cut out the middleman. Consumers purchase content directly from the creator. You own your content and you own your audience.
Not to mention that to serve ads means there is most likely an ad server somewhere ran by an ad agency, on an untrustworthy AWS or Google server/datacenter that is collecting some kind of stats to track said ads. Which is also another violation of a basic fundamental of Web3, privacy.
If the ads stay on Threads and are not shown on other front ends I have no problem with it. People can choose to not go there.
But it is NOT Web3. If we want real Web3 we need to think about other ways that doesnt include repackaging ye ole advertising models thats been used for 100 yrs or more into new shiny packages and pretending it's something "ground breaking and new". You can take crap out of a paper bag and put into plastic bag and call it "new" all you want.
It's still going to be crap in a bag.
If it does anything it will create a nice little inflated bubble that will eventually burst and it will be another thing the outside world will point at and say "See! Web3 wont work!!"
I guess I'm just frustrated with the way people are pushing the terms Web3. When you get down to it. Advertising is what gave us Web2. Do we really want to cram it into Web3? It is what caused us to run from Web2. It started all the privacy invasion, centralization, data harvesting, social engineering, governmental controls, etc.
Lets not start Web3 by doing the exact same thing.
We can do better. We have the best minds and the best devs in the world. We are Hive after all. Our children deserve better than Web2.5. Which is what ad's on Web3 is.
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