While I do agree with you, I also see twitch, TikTok and Patreon presenting models that are quite competitive with YouTube.

From a privacy perspective, free junk content like TikTok, YouTube and twitch will always be hard coupled with targeted advertising.

But Patreon (and onlyfans for that matter) do offer a model that can work without ads.

In fact, if Patreon also introduced an ad-supported tier and allowed you to more broadly see other content aside from the direct person you sponsor, it could probably grow quite a lot.

From a lecture by Roger Penrose

Wikipedia has an article and he has some videos on YouTube

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction

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Indeed.

And an often overlooked downside of all the tax loopholes is that asshole billionaires don’t pay tax, so they have a competitive advantage against someone like Mark Cuban.

Basically, with billionaires we are evolving them to become nastier with each generation.

A few days ago, a mildly critical comment of mine against Netanyahu was removed by the lemmy.world mods.

I said something like, both Netanyahu and Hamas want this war. Not too controversial, I would think.

It was in a thread on lemmy.ml

Anyway, I ditched my lemmy.world account and made this alt my main.

But yeah, the bots and propagandists have found lemmy, too. They seem to be focussing on the bigger instances.