n.s.

imagine a future, not necessarily the future, where most creators would self-serve content from their own places, instead of putting everything on youtube or whatever.

the problem with that is discoverability. youtube is so large that it’s just good at it. you can go on it and find literally anything you want, but at the same time it has a monopoly on content hosting. so here’s my proposal:

imagine a website.

a Content Creator can log onto The Website, then tag their account with some tags that would be generally appropriate for their content. then they post Links To Their Content on this website, and they also can tag those links with more specific topics.

and you, the Consumer Of Content can go on this website and search or follow some tags, and you’d see a List Of Links to things that might interest you with those tags. as well as a general ability to search things by names.

i think this would be cool, to have a website that specifically works on curated discoverability¹, with minimal algorithms included, where you can curate your own feed of Content Links and follow specific creators, as long as the creator is registered on there². the website itself doesn’t have to put a lot of monetary effort into itself, since text and image based content is really lightweight, compared to hosting videos.

and of course this website could work with any type of content: videos, podcasts, blogposts, music, you name it.

the website could really be like a link aggregator, but more personal-focused than community-focused like reddit.

oh and of course this would have RSS/ATOM plug-in support both ways, as in reading from a creator’s rss for automated Posting and making a personal feed for a user. good stuff.

is this anything?

1. cohost is sorta like this but it works for just text content. this would work for any type of content.

2. we wouldn’t want reposting because of Moderation Efforts mostly, so probably a creator could verify their content originality by putting in a <meta> tag on their webpage that would tell The Website that “yeah this is me”.