> The internet is an absolutely amazing place that demonstrates that sometimes people just want to share their work and have others enjoy it as well. We see this rarely in the real world where the focus and reward is on monetization
I want to engage in this with a way that sounds nit-picky, but isn't meant to be so. The internet is part of the real world; these people who are sharing on the internet are people in the real world who want to share.
I think a major difference is that reach is so globally amplified when you use the internet. When someone shares something so freely through the internet, it's literally available to the whole world, so I can know about all the sharing done on the internet by anyone around the world. When someone shares something so freely in a way that, by necessity or by choice, is in person, then only those sufficiently near to them will know about it (or at least can partake of it). So, when I look around me in the real world and see fewer people sharing than I do on the internet, it's not because they aren't there, only because I'm comparing populations of vastly different sizes.
I want to engage in this with a way that sounds nit-picky, but isn't meant to be so. The internet is part of the real world; these people who are sharing on the internet are people in the real world who want to share.
I think a major difference is that reach is so globally amplified when you use the internet. When someone shares something so freely through the internet, it's literally available to the whole world, so I can know about all the sharing done on the internet by anyone around the world. When someone shares something so freely in a way that, by necessity or by choice, is in person, then only those sufficiently near to them will know about it (or at least can partake of it). So, when I look around me in the real world and see fewer people sharing than I do on the internet, it's not because they aren't there, only because I'm comparing populations of vastly different sizes.