While monetization is certainly a great thing for a group of people wanting to go after things they and others enjoy, it's also exactly what incentivizes people to game the system and pretty much what brought us into our current place of spam, spam more spam and barely any way to discover things that are actually good.
I tend to think the quality of the content tends to be better when people don't think about stuff like user retention or subscriptions, but rather how it will actually reach people that care. Good search/curation is a key component for that.
Of course such a world free of implicit monetization will require it to be explicit (Patreon-style), but that should massively realign incentives.
I tend to think the quality of the content tends to be better when people don't think about stuff like user retention or subscriptions, but rather how it will actually reach people that care. Good search/curation is a key component for that.
Of course such a world free of implicit monetization will require it to be explicit (Patreon-style), but that should massively realign incentives.