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With too much content available, Reddit communities or Facebook groups attempt to sustain new models of attention attraction to grab your attention.

Things got serious. Harari, in his book on artificial intelligence, maintains something I agree with: today the battle is not to create content, but how the human being can consume all the available content without falling into the detriment of quality.

This is a very nice way of stating the problem. We all want access to useful and good information, and there is a huge amount of it out there, but it can easily become diluted or weakened by fluff or slop. And the result is that we waste our time.

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We all want access to useful and good information, and there is a huge amount of it out there, but it can easily become diluted or weakened by fluff or slop. And the result is that we waste our time.

I have this thing with Medium. I got the premium membership because I thought ok, now that people want my money, I'll get access to better content and by Lord Satoshi I was wrong. It turns out all of them where baits, imprecise info, a copypaste from other sources and a big etc., huge dissapointment.

As a matter of fact, all the good stuff I read (currently) at Medium are for-free, not in their paywall, which sucks. And yes, found some gems inside it but not worth pay money for 10% of articles and the rest is written with dedication to attention-whore economics.

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I'm convinced paying to post is a much stronger source of signal than paying to read.