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Dan Thornton

@badgergravling@mastodon.social
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Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos.
Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

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Joined November 09, 2022
Me:
https://danthornton.net/
Business:
https://www.thewayoftheweb.net/
Sim Racing:
https://www.onlineracedriver.com

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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jul 05, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

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Replying to @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk
@Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @aurynn@cloudisland.nz Yeah - I was asked to join the beta around that time and tried it for a while. Ultimately, process and tech problems can be overcome. The challenge is changing human habits. And even before the internet, most media was predominantly ad funded (the cover price of magazines is generally eaten up by publishing and distribution).
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jul 05, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk
@Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @aurynn@cloudisland.nz I'm mostly sticking out of the conversation, but micropayments have been experimented with for years e.g. Flattr has been around since 2010 and still hasn't caught on. Google also tried it around 2014/2015 Micropayments are something everyone claims to want (including me at times), but no-one ever actually does... If they did, I think most small publishers would happily ditch ads overnight.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

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Replying to @aurynn@cloudisland.nz
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk What a lovely capitalist libertarian way of looking at it. Enjoy Fox News when it's all that's left. I'd rather spend time trying to find solutions that improve things for everyone.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @badgergravling@mastodon.social
@aurynn @captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell I come from a working class family and scraped into the media after blagging work experience. Luckily my parents could just about help out. Anything that reduces the chance of poorer people being able to create anything is bad. Especially when they're clinging on in the face of AI churnalism wiping them all out.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @aurynn@cloudisland.nz
@aurynn @captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell You're perfectly fine to use an ad blocker... The issue is when you tell everyone to do it because 'the internet will be better for everyone'. Because that's never the case for anything - there are always winners and losers. In this case, any small creator trying to cover their costs and earn to reinvest
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @aurynn@cloudisland.nz
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk Cool. Let me know your IP, and I'll make sure it's blocked from any site I run with advertising on it And it's not about you 'owing me a business model'. It's the fact that business model helps lots of small media companies and creators to exist... If you just want stuff from the 3-4 big media conglomerates, go for it...
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @aurynn@cloudisland.nz
@aurynn @captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell No-one owes you free content, either.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @badgergravling@mastodon.social
@captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell @aurynn (For ref - my day job is a self-employed SEO/writer for clients, which is significantly more lucrative, but doesn't stop me wanting to build my own online homesteads)
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @badgergravling@mastodon.social
@captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell @aurynn And while I'm all in favour of other revenue streams, it requires either deep pockets or a strong personal brand. I'm not equipped to become a celebrity Youtuber, and I don't have the funds to set up live events etc. So as someone who would love to earn a living by writing about things he's passionate about on his own websites, advertising is a necessary evil...
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @aurynn@cloudisland.nz
@captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell @aurynn Yep - to be fair, search engines have an interest in serving quality content so people continue to use them (until they replace it with scraped AI answers), so they do try to combat low quality spam sites with varying degrees of success. But as a small content creator in my space time, I can't justify it costing me money to share my personal work, and advertising offsets the costs involved
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @badgergravling@mastodon.social
@Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell @aurynn I'd advocate for selective ad blocking - punish the intrusive ones, but support those creators you want to continue. Unfortunately micropayments, Patreon, etc etc only work for a relatively small number of people, if at all...
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2023
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz
@Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell @aurynn Big media companies can afford to switch to other revenue models, because they have the staff and resources... Smaller creators might just give up if they can't at least cover their financial costs (Free web space isn't part of most broadband, most people don't program their own HTML sites, etc). Not everyone starts internet projects to just dabble in their spare time.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2022
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @AndySocial@mastodon.cloud
@AndySocial @lpsrocks @atomicpoet Yep, in the dusty library of my memory, along with signing up for this new email service thing called Hotmail, and people claiming AltaVista and AskJeeves would never be replaced by that newfangled Google. Now I feel really, really old and need a lie down and a nap.
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2022
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @lpsrocks@mastodon.social
@lpsrocks @atomicpoet I'm ancient enough to remember the days of posting questions and answers in blog circles, and notifying people with mentions in the post, so they'd see the pingbacks!
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Dan Thornton @badgergravling@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2022
Dan Thornton
@badgergravling@mastodon.social

Self-employed freelance writer/SEO interested in creativity, marketing, technology, sim racing, scifi, motorcycles, guitars and tacos. Cofounder and Director at Digital People in Peterborough and Peterborough STEMFest, owner of onlineracedriver.com and rescogs.com, and various other projects...

mastodon.social
Replying to @atomicpoet@mastodon.social
@atomicpoet I remember that well - I used to be on Digg a lot... There have been lots of smaller examples of updating/closing forums and communities, but Twitter might finally push Digg off the top spot
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