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Arie van Deursen

“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”

— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com/content-in

The Cloudflare Blog · Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.
#cloudflare#contentcreators#crawler
Robert W. Gehl

This has to be my favorite thing I've found on the Internet in a while.

medium.com/@HeathEvans/content

A marketer using Medium to build a personal brand copypasted Bill Gates's 1996 "Content is King" article in full. The most highlighted bit is the bit about paying "content providers."

It's the ouroboros of content -- one of the finest expressions of the desire to feed content to itself.

Medium · “Content is King” — Essay by Bill Gates 1996 - Heath Evans - MediumBy Heath Evans
#contentCreators
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Michaël | HouseStationLive.com

YOUTUBE'S BENCH
May 5, 2025

I spent 18 months trying to make it on YouTube: livestreams, editing, shorts, chaptered reviews, commentary, no shortcuts. I got silence in return. This is not a rant. Not a thread. Just a text — written at 5:09 AM, on May 5, 2025 — when I realized the algorithm had never planned to let me play.
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5:09 AM

I can’t sleep. These past few days have been chaotic. My dream of becoming a YouTuber has collapsed. Eighteen months of relentless work, only to realize: insisting any further would just be a waste of time. I don’t have the right profile. I don’t meet the criteria. I bring no fame to the table, and I can’t afford to build it. YouTube doesn’t want me. My videos are online, I follow all the rules, but I’m playing alone in a corner. No one’s looking for me. No one’s finding me. The algorithm put a dunce cap on my head. But YouTube doesn’t humiliate people individually. That’s the magic of the system: no one is more important than the platform itself. The logo is huge. Your channel name? Tiny. Your avatar? Hidden. Your link? Buried. Your calls to action? Ignored. You’re not at home on YouTube. You’re on their turf. YouTube is the only star. And to keep it that way, it rotates the faces in the spotlight. No YouTuber is bigger than YouTube.

The algorithm decides. The algorithm selects. The algorithm benches you like a football coach who makes five billion players believe they’re all starters. You’re on the bench. You stay on the bench. And you can’t leave. Two views. Three. Sometimes twelve. Rarely seventeen. Everyone sees you sitting there, waiting for your moment. But it never comes. Even when another player gets injured and there’s five minutes left in the game, you don’t go in. You’ve become a vagrant of the system. You sit there, stuck in humiliation. And the worst part is, your failure is public. Your “3 views” are carved in stone. Everyone sees them. Like a giant sign saying: “Look at this loser.”

So I ask myself: what did I do to YouTube? Did I kill their mother? Did I insult their religion? No. It’s just how they operate. A massive filtering strategy. Let everyone in, hoping to spot one Samuel Étienne, tired of French public TV, one Jamy, bored with his retirement. YouTube is like a spoiled child who got a billion toys for Christmas and can’t pick one — so he chooses no one. He opens them, discards them, sighs, and moves on. He doesn’t need to choose. He’s no longer capable of it. So he stops choosing. And we, we stay there, hoping to be picked. Still believing in the miracle. Because despite everything, YouTube has a baby face. A familiar face. You can’t really hate it. That sweet face is what makes the trap perfect.
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|| #HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#YouTube#Algorithm#ContentCreators
Undead Zeratul

Happy Friday! Today we have the second VOD for our #Kingdom playthroughs. All in all, I prefer Two Crowns, especially after returning to it years later. I wish there was more of an open sandbox version, but I'm assuming you'd just never leave the island, especially once you close the small portals.

Maybe I just like colony builders...

youtu.be/qxRQ_BGRVcE

YouTubeKingdom: Two Crowns // UZVOD 2019-12-27By Undead Zeratul VODs
#Game#Games#Gaming
joshb

PeerTube 7.1 and why it's a game-changer

The latest update brings redesigned About pages, better federation visualization, seamless podcast distribution (now with Apple Podcasts support!), and Mastodon verification.

If you're tired of big platforms controlling your content, PeerTube offers a compelling alternative that just keeps getting better.

Check out my post here: 2tonwaffle.com/peertube-71-has

#PeerTube#ContentCreators#OpenSource
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Nuki Raccoon: The DEI Program of Furry Erotica

#PSA / #FediTips

Just a reminder to people that when you see people posting their #Art, #Photography, #Writing / #Microfiction, or otherwise being a #ContentCreator on the #Fediverse, we can't see that you've looked at what we posted unless you interact with it. A post with no interactions could have been seen by no one, or a few thousand people, we don't know.

If you like what we are doing, and want to see more of that, be sure to click one of the buttons: #boost it, #follow them, #reply with something as simple as "I like this", or even just hit that #fave button, because the fave button is great for telling us that people looked at it and wanted to see more. We all Love that feedback!

The number one reason #ContentCreators leave the network is because they don't think people are looking at their posts, and #TheContentMustFlow, so simply acknowledging that you like their work is crucial to keeping them on the network.

You can help Fedi grow just by liking posts!

joshb

Remember when the internet felt limitless? Now creators are confined to walled gardens, trading independence for convenience. The recent TikTok ban scare revealed how quickly digital empires can crumble.

Discover how to build platform independence while maintaining your social media presence.

#ContentCreators #DigitalStrategy #CreatorEconomy #SocialMedia #DigitalMarketing
2tonwaffle.com/the-death-of-di

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

youtube.com/watch?v=BwFGKJtj_H

#TheLeftistMafia #108 (3 hr plus show)

Why #Billionaires Are The ONLY Minority You Should Hate

Along with other topics, #IamBlakeley :heart_nb: (#iel) tells TLM about Youtube targeting small #contentcreators over bullshit about 'guideline violations' when it comes to #Palestine 🇵🇸 .

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

#Oligarchs #BillioniaresSUCK #CapitalismAndGovernment

Wow, a #MustWatchVideo . AND FYI, at the 12.40 min.mark, #ArianeJasmine said #TikTok shelled out $ 55 000 to throw a Republican content creators award ceremony (incl. with #BenShapiro 🤡 🤮).

14.15 min mark The entertainment? #WakaFlocka, #LilPump

DISGUSTING!

YouTubeWhy Billionaires Are the ONLY Minority You Should Hate | Leftist Mafia #108By The Humanist Report
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

A lot of #woodworking Youtube seems to be just advertorials for silly priced tools.

"Fast and easy joint! Just buy this €1300 domino tool and then keep buying pre-cut dominos. See! Easy!"

Who the fuck is this supposed to be for? Accomplished woodworkers don't need this content. Beginners going into credit card overdraft to buy a tool they don't need? Burnt out IT guys with too much money looking to find meaning in life?

#Rant#Youtube#ContentCreators
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naRADa

I forgot to add some other hobbies and topics I like!

I am also a #photographer who shoots #Fujifilm #XT5 mirrorless and Canon compact camera.

I love #ContentCreators , #Videography , and #WebDesign too. I try to avoid using Adobe products and use Perpetual or Life Time Deal licences.

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I also like #FOSS, #OpenSource, #SelfHost, and learn #WebDesign.

I am against #GenAI. But I am interested in #EthicalAI and #AIforGood #AIforA11y.

Thanks to what happened to Twitter and increased costs of SaaS, I became interested in #Decentralized #SelfHosted #HomeLab stuff.

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I am a #LifeLongLearner who is interested in #AdultEducation and #A11yInEducation.

Another hobby I hope to return to is #Blogging and #ProcreateArt / #DigitalDrawing.

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I listen to almost any music genre except classics, hardcore heavy metal rock, and some raps.

But I love #FolkMusic, #IndieMusic, #ElectricMusic, and #EDM.

My favourite #ElectricDanceMusic are #Psytrance, #Trance, #Techno, #Hardstyle, and #House. I like #raves. Mostly undergrounds or bush parties.

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Nuki Raccoon: The DEI Program of Furry Erotica

Reminder again that there is NO #ALGORITHM ON HERE. Which means POSTS WITH LINKS ARE GOOD.

Sometimes I see people advertising #streaming or #commissions and they don't have an actual link to the site it's on, meaning there's nothing for people who see the post to click. This also means, because there's nothing to click, there's nothing to really share other than someone saying they are doing something.

So put links in your posts!

#FediTips.

#artists#streamers#ContentCreators
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