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102 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 16 Jul \ on: Pay to post fixes AI slop AI
what is stopping the rest of the internet from moving towards pay to post?

I'd speculate that most platforms don't want to be niche, as then they'd have less marks to sell ads to and/or steal data from.

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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scoresby OP 16 Jul

do you think pay to post will always be niche?

(no hope that the a slop gets so deep, pay to post becomes the default?)

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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 16 Jul

Yes, because slop is normal.

From where I'm sitting the majority of tweets, fb posts, mass media articles and broadcasts, youtube videos, tiktok shorts, reddit posts... have always been slop, also before autocorrect made Sam rich.

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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 16 Jul
have always been slop

This resonates. I'm finding it takes me a little longer to identify llm-produced slop than rando-insane-internet person slop. I need to squint more, I guess.

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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 16 Jul

Does the source matter though? I'm not going to give people medals for writing their own slop.

The benefit of pay-to-post is that it attracts people that don't just post slop, but actually put in some thought and/or work. I'd say it causes selection more than it causes encouragement.

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 16 Jul

perhaps this is the point: a pay-to-post forum selects for people who take their time seriously.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 16 Jul

Yes! This is why I think it'll stay niche.

But niche is awesome imho: I've spent my best time on the interwebs in niche places.

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