Comment on SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal

• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The thing is a lot of audiobooks aren’t being produced at all right now, or aren’t being produced to an acceptable quality standard (not because the narrator is bad, but because they and they editor weren’t paid enough to get it right.

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• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think game changing tech is always better but we as consumers are complicit in allowing the erosion of the benefit because were complacent.

  Look at podcasts as an example. It beat the shit out of any other media at the time. Just hobbiest and funny people making content. Content that didn’t have any producers making sure people stayed on script. No ads, ever to interrupt or make creators panic about topics. Then rogan started pushing pocket pussies and everybody said its cool because its only 2 mins and skippable. Years later its now multiple unskippable ads on a paid service where we pay to avoid ads.

  The only time we could have stopped the current problem is when it wasn’t a problem. But we don’t have that foresight

  So game changing tech is great, if we keep it on track. Don’t let it erode.

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Years later its now multiple unskippable ads on a paid service where we pay to avoid ads.

    You must be listening to different podcasts to me. Those “hobbiest” content creators are still there, and they tend to have decent microphones now and have learned how to create fairly high production value content. Yes, they have ads, but they’re short and skippable (or even at the end of the episode) and you want them to get paid for their work right? Otherwise they won’t do it.

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t want them to get paid. I want people like me who are so passionate about a thing that they make stuff for the community. What I don’t want are for those people to not bother creating things because the whole technology shifted towards profit motivations and the space and tech was taking over by the 1000th comedian who is leveraging a free advertising method and selling ad space like they’re a NASCAR car. And no ads are not all skippable. No they’re not short, they interrupt, they infiltrate every corner of our lives and podcasts were popular early on because they were the exact opposite of what they are now. Now its just radio 2.0.

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