<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Yuchen,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My point around those platforms was around my content being used to advertise to others. Their search indices integrate my content, as they do for all content they hoover up.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With that, they then present "relevant advertising" to people who search for things that I'm answering with my content.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I see none of that revenue, neither does anyone else.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not to mention, Google maps and reviews where my updates and reviews helps everyone else, but I don't see a dime.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Corporate surveys are another.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My point being that my (and anyone else who does this) content goes unrewarded.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in this scra^Hibble<br><br>()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..</div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 22 Mar 2022, 06:48 Yuchen Pei, <<a href="mailto:ycp@gnu.org">ycp@gnu.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah sustainability of free software is a tricky problem, similar to<br>
other the sustainability of public goods like journalism, research and<br>
art. I'm not sure whether it is a consequence of tolerating proprietary<br>
software, or neoliberalism, or both.<br>
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On Mon 2022-03-21 11:44:34 +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:<br>
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> The centralisation of software and media are both following the same path. As a<br>
> software developer and podcaster, I'm contributing more than most to the likes<br>
> of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, AWS and others. None of this generates<br>
> income.<br>
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I don't quite understand this bit. How are you contributing to these<br>
platforms? If none of this generates income, why would you keep<br>
contributing to these platforms? Or is it an involuntary kind of<br>
contribution, like people publish your work on these platforms without<br>
your consent?<br>
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Best,<br>
Yuchen<br>
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