Sharecroppers of the Algorithm: The More You Create, the Less They Pay - In-depth critique of Web2. excellent work @zachharris.eth

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue… just stuff people do.” - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath -- From sharecropping feeds to digital sovereignty in your cup. Traditional social taxes your work and rents your audience back; decentralized social pays the creator first. Think Grapes of Wrath for 2025: name the extraction, walk off the farm, keep the crop. Here's the third deep dive in Revisiting 1000 True Fans in 2025. I'm excited to hear what you think in public and private. 🫡

Discover insights from @zachharris.eth on the shifts facing digital creators as platform dynamics change. In the latest blog post, learn about the struggles faced by portrait photographer Alex Chen during Instagram’s transition to video content and the ensuing decline in organic reach. There's a looming concern of digital sharecropping where creators produce more but see diminishing returns. Pivot strategies are explored, emphasizing direct monetization on protocols like Farcaster, while ensuring creators can maintain true ownership over their audience and earnings.

ICYMI Started doing a deep dive multi part series around attention value and permissionless tech that levels the playing field. Here are the first three posts. Would love to hear your thoughts! https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/1000-fans-revisited https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/welcome-to-the-rent-free-revolution https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/stop-renting-start-owning-the-secret-contracts-that-rigged-the-creator-economy

"Opportunity Costs Time spent gaming algorithms instead of creating value" "The true price of "free" platforms becomes clear when you try to leave:"https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/welcome-to-the-rent-free-revolution?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2 @zachharris.eth me like

🫡 How are my Federalist peppers hitting so far @kompreni? Would you like hotter takes? Deeper dives? What's working? What's not? Why? 🥵 🌶️ https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/welcome-to-the-rent-free-revolution?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2 https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/stop-renting-start-owning-the-secret-contracts-that-rigged-the-creator-economy?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2

TIL what Common Crawl and LAION are. Read here from @zachharris.eth’s new publication https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/stop-renting-start-owning-the-secret-contracts-that-rigged-the-creator-economy?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2

🏴‍☠️ Most creators don’t sign ToS. ToS sign THEM. If platforms want your soul, charge rent. If they want your style, charge royalties. If they want your fans, change the rails. Spoiler Alert: Royalty‑free. Transferable. Sub‑licensable. Worldwide. Translation: You get exposure for a lot of value creation asymmetry. My second deep dive, revisiting 1000 true fans in 2025, explores this and more. Is about how to flip the contract. The profound implications of programmable IP when you own it and your relationships. Excited to hear people's thoughts publicly or privately. 🫡 https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/stop-renting-start-owning-the-secret-contracts-that-rigged-the-creator-economy?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2

Discover the challenges of the creator economy in @zachharris.eth's latest blog post, "1000 True Fans in 2025 - Deep Dive 1." Learn how platforms leverage ambiguous terms that leave creators undervalued while adopting webshop economics are fragile and benefit the platforms. The post outlines significant directives for creators to regain control over their audience and monetization and provides actionable strategies for fostering a more sustainable digital infrastructure. Explore what it means to join the rent-free revolution!

Stop letting platforms live in your head rent free. In today’s creator economy, you don’t own your reach—algorithms do. Instagram pivots, Twitter rewires timelines, TikTok retunes recommendations; overnight, your work can vanish from the feed. Fees, opaque rules, and policy flips extract the value you create while blocking direct access to the people who chose you. That’s rented land. In 2025, technology unlocks, changes the dynamics of what's possible today. Portable identity (ENS, Farcaster), instant global payments (USDC on Base), decentralized content (IPFS/Arweave), and programmable communities (token-gated memberships, smart contracts) flip the power dynamic. Instead of chasing platform favor, you own the relationship: fans can find you across apps; you can get paid directly; community value compounds without intermediaries. The strategy is simple: use platforms for discovery, migrate value to owned channels, and build a portable audience. Optimize for fan lifetime value, not likes. Favor depth over virality, education over gimmicks, authenticity over algorithm theater. Start compounding with true fans—on infrastructure you control. Jump in and let's explore all of these concepts and more in the 1st deep dive. Of course, all of this is easier said than done… 🫡

In the latest blog post, @zachharris.eth explores the drastic shifts in the creator economy as content creators have found themselves at the mercy of algorithms. Viewer preferences can change overnight, jeopardizing hard-earned followings. However, 2025 marks a turning point where creators can truly own their audience relationships via blockchain and decentralized systems, fostering direct monetization and deeper connections with true fans. This empowers creators, offering the potential for financial independence and controlled fan engagement in the digital realm.

A New Day One and Base Camp strengthened my conviction that there’s never been a better time to be a builder, artist or creator onchain. Been thinking a lot about the possibilities crypto can unlock for the attention economy, creator economy, knowledge sharing economy, social economy and self sovereignty game. Have started to explore these in a miniseries where I dive deep into a range of topics. Here is the foreword. They’re all based on the topic of 1000 true fans, but revisited in 2025. https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/1000-fans-revisited?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2

Here's a sneak peek into some of the stuff I'm writing about. Would welcome any and all feedback public or private. Wrong answers only. 🫡

In the latest blog post by @zachharris.eth, the author explores the shift in power dynamics within the creator economy. By 2025, fans will financially empower creators directly, altering how artistic contributions are rewarded and shared. The era of "Rent-Free" embodies a movement away from reliant online platforms masked as indispensable. With just solutions in Web3, programmable rights unfurl a landscape where creators can tether their audience segments, set authentic permissions, and reap genuine advantages as independent innovators overcoming outdated models.

Watching A New Day One almost a month ago got my wheels turning… Apart from @antonio (who I’d love to chat with offline) who’s the best person to nerd out about next-gen, on-chain ads @jesse.base.eth? (Cross posting for extended reach)

Had a great chat with Eric Chen today from Spindl. We nerded out about a lot of stuff around ad tech. It made me think long and hard about the future of permissionless advertising. I'd love to hear what you think of this new post in TIL.

Struggling with digital chaos? @zachharris.eth highlights how our cluttered desktops reflect the messiness of online advertising in 2024. Dive into insights on attention value monetization, programmatic pitfalls, and the pressing need to pivot strategies. Discover the shift from traditional models to on-chain solutions that respect customer consent, timing, and preferences. The chaotic state of advertising isn’t just personal; it's an industry-wide wake-up call for clarity and effectiveness. Ready to declutter your digital marketing? Tune in!

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Published my 1st @paragraph content coin $TIL for a newsletter I'm starting called Today I Learned and paired it with $FAIR (as a test). @colin and @jacob it would be cool if there were a native @zora integration to pair with EAS-verified social tokens. Could this inject new life into crypto native content franchises like Doodles or any other NFT projects from the last cycle. $doodles launched ~ 9 AM EST today. MC @ $2.5 Mil. We'll see! 🫡 https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/til 0xa79290b63cb9c4bf25943a9f28b4662882222944

Technology is advancing faster than ever, reshaping our understanding of growth in a rapidly changing landscape. In the latest blog post by @zachharris.eth, the idea of the "Law of Accelerating Returns" highlights that we may see not just a century’s worth but the equivalent of 20,000 years of progress poised to rewrite the future. As society grapples with overwhelming new tools and concepts, fostering curiosity and a collaborative learning approach becomes essential for prosperity amidst the influx of technological change.

TIL: FAFO - 4 Ways to Collect https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/fafo?referrer=0x3402AcA642DdB9C322872Dd84a3d4e2F1C17eFF2

FAFO 👍

My first /paragraph post. LMK what you think. https://paragraph.com/@zachharris/fafo s/o @grin

Exploring the concept of "FAFO," @zachharris.eth dives into how experimentation fuels growth in a chaotic, knowledge-sharing economy. Emembracing trials and errors leads to valuable insights and reinforces the idea that every expert started as a novice. Engage, share, and learn fearlessly!