{"id":193592,"date":"2024-07-26T02:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/death-of-the-follower-the-future-of-creativity-on-the-web"},"modified":"2024-07-26T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:30:57","slug":"death-of-the-follower-the-future-of-creativity-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/death-of-the-follower-the-future-of-creativity-on-the-web","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Follower &amp; the Future of Creativity on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hwn6-8XpIuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The internet is going through a shift. There used to be a thing called a \u201cfollower.\u201d It allowed publishers, creators, and anyone online to build a community around their work. But this piece of foundational architecture for human creativity and communication \u2013 the \u201cfollow\u201d \u2013 has been threatened. In this talk, I put this internet-wide shift in historical context from the perspective of a creator, outline where the web will go in the future, and offer thoughts on what to do about it all as a modern creator on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is going through a shift. There used to be a thing called a \u201cfollower.\u201d It allowed publishers, creators, and anyone online to build a community around their work. But this piece of foundational architecture for human creativity and communication \u2013 the \u201cfollow\u201d \u2013 has been threatened. In this talk, I put this internet-wide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}