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Not only is it putting all your eggs in one basket.
Instagram (and Facebook) are so aggressively locking down their website for non-subscribers it’s beyond infuriating.

I guess I am one of the few old folk still refusing to join the Meta-verse and let my data be exploited for profit. The sad part is that they probably are exploiting my data alread and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. I am seeing ads for companies that claim they will hunt down and eliminate your data, but I’m not confident that is a long term solution as those companies will be targeted as they present big juicy boxes of data.

The guy said he was launching an actual webshop, so … we will have to wait and see when that happens. As a one-man operation doing a 2 day convention in a foreign country must be exhausting. I’m not sure if the event was suited for his work, because it is more focused on scale models and diorama building.

Part of the problem is that ‘everyone’ into some form of art appears to be using the instagram thingy, so it makes sense to start there to get noticed. I think most folk don’t realise the kind of problems this will cause long term. And as we’ve seen when that one-man web-host ‘service’ went down … even fewer have plans to survive such incidents or cared about it.

It’s one of these areas of operating a business where spending a bit of money can save some really serious headaches.

I think that a lot of these one-man operations are economically nonviable, but the owners of these businesses are unwilling and unable to see that as a problem.

@grantinvanman social media do indeed thrive on endless negativity. That’s why you get those clickbait video titles on youtube.
Anything to force a response from viewers is a ‘good’ thing according to the folk creating these sites.

I think no one has really found a solution that would make it easier to find things out there on the interwebs. Every single time a good idea comes to live it inevitably comes crashing down as the need for ‘moar money’ becomes more important than providing users with a good solution. Remember when Google was the first clean search engine that managed to give you answers within a single click? Not possible, because the system has been broken and Google is unwilling to fix it.

I’m pretty sure that when Instagram first arrived it was useful. Then folks started abusing it as an alternative to twatter and things went downhill from there.

Greed is the one reason we’re never ever going to have our cyberspace the way it was envisioned in those early novels.
There is no one out there willing to sacrifice profit to get a universal system that just works.

I kind of think that if it hadn’t been for those early sacrifices we wouldn’t even have an internet.

OTT itself can be a perfect site for helping these small companies onto a platform with long term survival in mind.
If only it had more power to function like the dream that Warren & co had in mind when they created it.

I keep hoping there is a bright future ahead for our hobby with a platform like OTT to power it.
I think there’s too much greed in the world to do make that a reality, because I’ve seen too many things become corrupted the moment they got enough momentum to make them work as the creators had envisioned.