Who’s making the media?
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Saarth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I want a future where communities self host their media and circumvent media companies like Netflix and Disney. Local film clubs, TV clubs, hobbyists, etc. can come together and host as a collective bringing down costs and making this more accessible.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Okay, so you don’t even need a socialist system for this, just a moderately sane government. Even here in Estonia, the government hands out funding for cultural projects. Now this is still a capitalist society, so you likely can’t get full funding for a big project.
In an actual socialist economy, the government will give you full funding for projects. The actors and everyone else working on a movie or TV show have guaranteed income that’s enough to live their lives, guaranteed living accommodations, etc, so they’re more likely to do it as a passion project, but they could still be paid as extra motivation. Funding is still required for equipment, etc. Unless you go fully money free as a society, in which case you ask the government to assign equipment to you.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
imagine it for us then. what would this model look like and be sustainable?
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Sure.
The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.
So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.
Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.
You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.
There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A tax on corporate use of AI to fund an artist stipend, to provide a living wage for artists.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The same people who already make the media. Just cut out the corporate middle-men, who soak up all the profit and contribute nothing to the content.
Saarth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are a lot of independent creators out there too.
ThePancake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just imagine a federated, YouTube-like platform. Except better in literally every single way. You are a member of your local community instance, and thereby connected with every other federated instance throughout the world.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sounds suspiciously like Peertube
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
As an in-between measure, may I suggest Nebula? Creators get 50% of the earnings, it’s assigned by view time. Price is significantly cheaper than Netflix or YouTube Premium. Yes, most of the creators are on YouTube too, but a lot of them do bonus content on Nebula + there’s no ads + they get more money. If you use an ad blocker on YouTube, the creator gets nothing.
You can get a discount for your first year by using your favourite small-medium size creator’s marketing link (which gives them a bit of money). If you don’t have one, may I suggest Patrick H Willems? He has cool video essays on cinema. You could of course use a bigger creator’s link too, but I figure I’d rather pump some smaller creator’s numbers.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We can do this, once we transition to socialism, and cut out the corporations. Run nodes on the community-owned fiber for free access to the citizens.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
What media do you think you’ll be getting under socialism with no corporations? Lol
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I don’t even consider the Soviet Union to be very successful socialism, but here you go.
And inb4 “you only get the state approved media” - well right now you only get the capitalists approved media (so same-same) and also in a functioning socialist society, for bigger art projects like film and TV show, projects get funding from government without being government-initiated. I mean it was the same in the soviet union, but since it was a dictatorship, the government was picky in what was approved.
In fact, best thing about government funding is that there’s a lot less pressure to be commercially successful than with corporate funding. Commercial flops can still have cultural value and the fun thing is, a socialist government as the source of your funding can see that as a value unto itself, whereas a corporation has no value for culture other than the money it can bring in.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You must be joking. The people who make any money producing online content are a very, very small minority.
And if people didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks to barely make enough to survive, we’d get a lot more creative content. All that would change is there wouldn’t be some talentless suit exploiting it.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
You wouldn’t be getting any tv shows or movies. You’d be getting YouTube style stuff……like you do now.
canajac@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Propaganda!
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Like ham radio ppl