Post #1917775

2026-02-10 14:45 UTC

@doriane It’s not just about ethics. Nobody can choose the 100% ethical method all the time. ipernity, one place with my images, still uses Amazon for some admin. stuff, for instance. But if I were putting pictures out there in the “Big City” (IG) to try and make a living, I’d have to acknowledge that with greater visibility also comes greater competition and shorter attention spans from viewers. No matter what I did, there would always be a buyer’s market and I could STILL end up w/o success.

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@xenophora@mastodon.art 2026-02-10 14:53

@doriane As to your second point, sure. But it bothers me that people got pulled onto a thing which looked good. They became roped to it, only for it to turn bad and harm them and others. It bothers me that we see this happen over and over. It bothers me that somehow this cycle is still the best we can do. So that even people who’ve come to expect they’ll be screwed eventually will just keep signing up again for whatever new bait-and-switch promises them prosperity.

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@doriane@post.lurk.org 2026-02-10 15:56

@xenophora yeah totally, abstract quest for ethical purity is a diversion from actual materialist change! everyone need to do their path and universal pure solution are a lie. that's true, the big city as you say came with its own rules: algorithmically driven competition and attention span alienation. but as a fact, it created entirely new media culture... generations of memes, success story and horrible story, alongside a fair range of materialist projects who used it as a tactic: like many activism project, street protests or political pedagogy have been boosted through the alienating street of big city. Nowadays, it's not only a platform that we need to detach of, but a culture - that's even harder, especially for those who experienced material change (individual or collective) through such media culture.

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