@Okuna Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's remark on #disintermediation, with the idea we had in the early days of the WWW to link people directly with what they want.
Now we (well, most of us) are back to doing everything via platforms that want their cut (of money, or personal data) :-)
@u0421793 Spookily enough, I was just reading #Enshittification again, just after this bit on #disintermediation
"If you’re old enough to remember the early excitement about the coming digital age, you’ll recall how enthusiastic we were
about the prospect of disintermediation—that is, cutting out the middleman."
I remember soldering my first RS-232 cable for a borrowed modem. I had to *phone* my friend Chris and write down the 9-pin and 25-pin assigments, like a savage, to get connected :-)
The value then was in the end point, not the platform/middleman (unless you count the phone bill), and I gladly paid some of those endpoints, such as CiX.
Now we have the most visible parts of the web being giant platforms, "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four" in the words of Tom Eastman.
Yesterday I was trying to design the DEN (DisENshitternet) and the problen I have, as ever, is how to put the money where the value is, without breaking the open source dynamic.
I may be some time.
#disintermediation is not only a commercial thing.
"“It truly destroyed me knowing that you had to suffer and cancel your class and received hate from horrible people,” one man wrote. “I feel somehow that you are part of my family, and I regret it."
Anik Talukder, a 28-year-old south Asian man living in the United Kingdom, said he apologized at least 10 times to Schmidt-Hori after accepting her Zoom invitation to discuss his Reddit post about her."
https://apnews.com/article/assassins-creed-video-game-harassment-4b68890b7ed9ead8dbe3ad09dbee9859
@dankennedy_nu The only reason I tune into Sinclair WCSH-13 in Maine is to watch the Colbert show.
And I would miss the PPH if Sinclair took over.
Tried to (re)create a paid subscription to PPH and their website fought me, I gave up. With the takeover of media by Oligarchs, paid subscriptions are not their goal.
#Disintermediation
@herhandsmyhands
> Go to the website using a browser, so that more money goes to the person you are supporting (Patreon is already taking a large bite of that pie as it is)
As is the payment processor that Patreon uses to interact with your bank account. There are so many layers of intermediaries clipping the ticket.
I can totally sympathise with the CryptoBugs who want to make payments P2P. Problem is, DeFi is full of ticket-clipping grifters too.
»Wir haben keine Ahnung, wie wir mit AGI Umsätze machen werden. Wir haben ein softes Versprechen an unsere Investoren gemacht: Wenn wir dereinst eine künstliche Superintelligenz gebaut haben werden, dann fragen wir sie, wie man mit ihr am besten Geld verdient.«
OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman vor einer Reihe Venture-Capital-Leuten
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/generative-ki-warum-null-klicks-eine-neue-gefahr-fuer-die-demokratie-sind-kolumne-a-0b3c2de7-4e96-47c6-9c3b-e38d2b5501c5 #Disintermediation #zeroclick #marketing
"#Platforms have emerged as the endemic form of internet-based business, which is ironic, because a platform is just an #intermediary – a company that connects different groups to each other. The internet's great promise was #disintermediation – getting rid of intermediaries. We did that, and then we got a whole bunch of new intermediaries."
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/
Different levels of #disintermediation | by Jason Yip | Oct, 2023 | Medium
https://jchyip.medium.com/different-levels-of-disintermediation-671e1b40ef92 #Agile #Scrum #ExtremeProgramming
@dangillmor Many of the articles I've read about "how the Hollywood business model changed, creators have to adapt to new ways" could have the terms "actors/writers" replaced with "reporters/editors" and "studios/streamers" replaced with "major newspapers and networks".
I hope the irony does not escape them...as they tell me about their Patreon or Substack or Twitch.
#Disintermediation
I ran a poll here and got some positive answers, so:
anyone care to test my new system and pre-order a print/ebook bundle of #omfilesystems directly from me? #disintermediation
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/omf-print-ebook-bundle/
RT @ecoinometrics@Twitter.com
Ecoinometrics Newsletter
Mar. 01, 2021
In this issue of the newsletter:
- #Bitcoin’s progress bar.
- Coinbase IPO and #BTC treasury.
- Central Bank Digital Currencies and disintermediation.
https://twitter.com/ecoinometrics/status/1366402867800629260
Ecoinometrics - March 01, 2021:
https://ecoinometrics.substack.com/p/ecoinometrics-march-01-2021
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