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src/pages/blog/bad_ideas.md

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 during my endless scrolling, which is eerily familiar to doom scrolling through youtube shorts but my mind has been tricked by internet men telling me reading blogs is better for you, i also sometimes find gems hidden amongst the coal, posts from people who dont post anything for a year then come out of nowhere to write an extremely detailed and informative post about how using linux is going to get me hacked because my printer is vulnerable to a everyone. i hope one day i will be blessed with more than a thirty minute attention span and be smart enough to write something of that quality, but last time i asked to be blessed with something god gave me a 36% on my maths final so my hopes arent high.
 
-to end this wordy but overall meaningless piece of slop id like to say that i hope one day ill be able to look back at my blog and see thousands of posts, an extension of my younger self who was unburdened by things like a mortgage and a failing marriage, so i hope to post on here at least once a week. that future is pretty unlikely to happen though, both because the odds of me ever affording a house even with a mortgage are almost non existant and because inspiration comes and goes, i doubt ill be able to keep this going as long as someone like manu who i imagine is going to continue posting until the end of both his natural and unnatural life but i can surely hope for $\frac{1}{100}$ of his power. to be able to scroll down for full seconds through my list of posts would surely be a nice thing to see, i at least want enough that youll need to scroll to see all the blogs on the main page.
+to end this wordy but overall meaningless piece of slop id like to say that i hope one day ill be able to look back at my blog and see thousands of posts, an extension of my younger self who was unburdened by things like a mortgage and a failing marriage, so i hope to post on here at least once a week. that future is pretty unlikely to happen though, both because the odds of me ever affording a house even with a mortgage are almost non existant and because inspiration comes and goes, i doubt ill be able to keep this going as long as someone like manu who i imagine is going to continue posting until the end of both his natural and unnatural life but i can surely hope for $\frac{1}{100}$ of his power. to be able to scroll down for full seconds through my list of posts would surely be a nice thing to see, i at least want enough that youll need to scroll to see all the blogs on the main page.
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+<p style="text-align:center;">(( ( update 29/09/24 ) ))</p>
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+rereading this, this shit sucks i dont know why at 11:30 i thought myself to be a writer or something, but this is dogshit. id be shocked if anyone reads this.

src/pages/blog/sites_destined.md

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+title: "social sites destined to fail"
+date: 2024-09-29
+tags:
+    - web
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+in about a day [cohost](https://cohost.org/) is going read only so i wanted to talk about sites, specifically social media websites that are destined to collapse and die off in a year. contrary to the stereotype of the terminally online website making people loving to use these shitty knock off twitters and tumblrs, i actually kind of hate how all these social media sites keep getting made. i cant see how the solution to twitter doing shitty things like deleting accounts after they are become inactive, deleting billions of tweets is creating a new site that will just end up another black hole for content as it eventually gets shut down. 
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+the main reason these sites fail is due to not having enough money (shocker i know), but they dont make enough money because they somehow believe that a social media site without ads could sustain itself, that will never work. i will cut off a finger the day i see a social media sustain itself without selling their users data or showing them copious amounts of ads. the only way that will work is if in the distant future storage costs like a dollar per terabyte. for an example how how much it costs to run one of these social medias here is cohosts net profit from the past four months:
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+| Month                                                                | Net Income                                      | % Change                                   |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------ |
+| [May](https://cohost.org/staff/post/6403911-may-2024-financial-u)    | <span style="color:red;">-$24,650</span>        | <span style="color:red;">26.15%</span>     |
+| [June](https://cohost.org/staff/post/7045283-june-2024-financial)    | <span style="color:red;">-$38,937</span>        | <span style="color:red;">57.96%</span>     |
+| [July](https://cohost.org/staff/post/7356939-july-2024-financial)    | <span style="color:red;">-$12,647</span>        | <span style="color:red;">67.52%</span>     |
+| [August](https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down)  | <span style="color:red;">-$25,297</span>        | <span style="color:red;">100.3%</span>     |
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+(i made sure to color it red so you know its bad). props to them for showing their financial reports, and im aware most businesses start up with a loss but when you lose money for two years and by the sounds of it only have one guy investing to keep you running it doesnt take a genius to figure out they arent going to last. its not even cohost too, there are probably hundreds more of these, some of the ones ive seen are [bitview](https://www.bitview.net/) (a youtube knockoff) and [bluesky](https://bsky.app/) (a twitter knockoff). my hopes for these both are 0, especially bluesky as while bitview is very small bluesky seems significantly larger and has 0 money making methods. id give bluesky two years max. bitview might not go broke as like two people use it but i reckon its going to shutdown due to burnout by whoever made it, im a fortune teller id know.
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+if you want a new twitter just use mastodon, thats the only one that i reckon is actually here to stay as even if one server goes down someone else can just run a new one leading to the cost being spread out instead of some college student getting charged 20k a month.