# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 8
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/ic65iza
@lazarus WOW! Pretty long piece! 😳 I don't even need to read this though... I agree 🤣 What's the take away? I assume you read it all? 😂
@lazarus WOW! Pretty long piece! 😳 I don't even need to read this though... I agree 🤣 What's the take away? I assume you read it all? 😂
@prologic He has the time to write in prison.\n\nDifficult to sum up in short, but recognises that most users are now too accustomed to using services of content providers for free to go back to paying.\n\nAdvocates for dentralizing to the user level with advertisers funding users directly. Hosts/providers receive a cut and compete for users, whom have flexibility to move. \n\n> At one extreme, there might be users who cannot generate enough ad revenue to cover their costs. It may be that if a user never clicks on ads then advertisers will eventually stop paying to display those ads. However, brand advertisers may still be willing to pay a very small amount, allowing some content delivery. As a worst case, such a user could simply host their own content, eschewing the convenience of a service provider. Or better yet, they could become a service provider themselves and make enough to cover their own DSP use.\n> \n> At the other extreme, there may be users who are so valuable to advertisers that they bring in more ad revenue than is needed to cover the costs of the various DSP services they use. Given the billions of dollars in profit generated by social media platforms benefiting from the network effect, it is reasonable to expect that many users will profit by using DSP and interacting with their advertisers.\n> \n> The last outliers we will consider are the users who would rather not see ads and instead pay for DSP services themselves. Such users will have to fund their DSP wallet themselves which will be slowly drained.\n\nSuggests that a form of machine learning (Zero Knowledge Artificial Neural Networks) would be able to help moderate content without sacrificing privacy.
@prologic He has the time to write in prison.
Difficult to sum up in short, but recognises that most users are now too accustomed to using services of content providers for free to go back to paying.
Advocates for dentralizing to the user level with advertisers funding users directly. Hosts/providers receive a cut and compete for users, whom have flexibility to move.
> At one extreme, there might be users who cannot generate enough ad revenue to cover their costs. It may be that if a user never clicks on ads then advertisers will eventually stop paying to display those ads. However, brand advertisers may still be willing to pay a very small amount, allowing some content delivery. As a worst case, such a user could simply host their own content, eschewing the convenience of a service provider. Or better yet, they could become a service provider themselves and make enough to cover their own DSP use.
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> At the other extreme, there may be users who are so valuable to advertisers that they bring in more ad revenue than is needed to cover the costs of the various DSP services they use. Given the billions of dollars in profit generated by social media platforms benefiting from the network effect, it is reasonable to expect that many users will profit by using DSP and interacting with their advertisers.
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> The last outliers we will consider are the users who would rather not see ads and instead pay for DSP services themselves. Such users will have to fund their DSP wallet themselves which will be slowly drained.
Suggests that a form of machine learning (Zero Knowledge Artificial Neural Networks) would be able to help moderate content without sacrificing privacy.
@lazarus Hmmm 🤔 i’ll try to find some time to read the whole article 👌
@lazarus Hmmm 🤔 i’ll try to find some time to read the whole article 👌
@lazarus @prologic Read the whole thing. A lot of good ideas and some we are already doing with twt/yarn.social