The web is healing
Bookmarked The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing - Anil Dash by Anil Dash.
Young, engaged audiences give a damn about working conditions for creators, so they like that many of these are workers’ co-ops, and that the rest are mostly non-profits that try to treat their writers well. After years of capture, digital distribution is returning to open formats like email and even the nascent world of the fediverse with its interesting potential for new delivery options. Paying for subscriptions for content has been fully normalized between Patreon and OnlyFans and Dropout and a lot of other human-scale media memberships. Many would much rather pay normal people every month than fork out for yet another corporate streaming service.
It's easy let negativity win out with the seeming unsurmountable position of tech giants that keep enshittifying their products in the name of earning another buck. But there's movement turning into movements for making tech and the web better for people and for humanity as a whole. We all have the means to do our bit to help bring forward this change.
How are you contributing?