I'm with ya, Geoff. I just started seriously putting my words online using Medium and here - duplicating everything! That's nuts. Now, a writer has to write and maintain his words in multiple places?!? I used to get paid directly from a REAL publisher, not this techBro fake publishing crap, at a rate of at least 10-20-50-100 cents per word, whatever even more, why would I even care to remember things like that). And when I used to write something, I'd send it and forget about it, the healthy usual way to write back in the 90s, and as done since the finger found media in a cave somewhere.
Both these platforms will fail because they will never be able to support a writer's living wage, no matter how many stacks or mediums the words flow to. And I am sorry, I read the ones that MUST be getting the very big bucks because of "love" counts, and I don't get it. My bet is the algo is rigging the game. And why not? The internet looks like a giant casino from where I sit (in a jungle, in Nepal).
u should! I'd read it, but I hate the product! :) Just teasing. I plan on writing about some horrible products I managed or was management-adjacent to, such as the OS/2 Warp HTML Browser, the IBM 3820 Printer, The IBM PC 1 and Jr, a Robotic Arm, and an ATM. All disasters except the arm in my mind, funny enough. But you know, do peeps want to read history? I am not so sure, but I just started here. Would you happen to have any idea about that? Do peeps want to hear old war stories from old fucks like me? My guess is no.
WHY THIS PLACE WILL DIE SOMEDAY SOON
I'm with ya, Geoff. I just started seriously putting my words online using Medium and here - duplicating everything! That's nuts. Now, a writer has to write and maintain his words in multiple places?!? I used to get paid directly from a REAL publisher, not this techBro fake publishing crap, at a rate of at least 10-20-50-100 cents per word, whatever even more, why would I even care to remember things like that). And when I used to write something, I'd send it and forget about it, the healthy usual way to write back in the 90s, and as done since the finger found media in a cave somewhere.
Both these platforms will fail because they will never be able to support a writer's living wage, no matter how many stacks or mediums the words flow to. And I am sorry, I read the ones that MUST be getting the very big bucks because of "love" counts, and I don't get it. My bet is the algo is rigging the game. And why not? The internet looks like a giant casino from where I sit (in a jungle, in Nepal).
Thanks for the note. One day I will write about my horrible experience with Quora.
u should! I'd read it, but I hate the product! :) Just teasing. I plan on writing about some horrible products I managed or was management-adjacent to, such as the OS/2 Warp HTML Browser, the IBM 3820 Printer, The IBM PC 1 and Jr, a Robotic Arm, and an ATM. All disasters except the arm in my mind, funny enough. But you know, do peeps want to read history? I am not so sure, but I just started here. Would you happen to have any idea about that? Do peeps want to hear old war stories from old fucks like me? My guess is no.