Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans.
Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read.
If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an #LLM.
@maxleibman it was and is expensive, but I’m doing it. If @pluralistic can do it then I can. Click farming is irrelevant without ads or tracking. Just throwing thoughts about books out there into the Fediverse like messages in bottles. The people meant to find my blog will find it, and in the meantime it’s a great resource to remind myself how the threads of my reading history connect.
My site is photo-heavy, but I only use alt text to describe images for people using screen readers, not for SEO. Something I learned to do here on Mastodon 👍
Also, no keyword clutter, invisible footer text or any other crap like that. I just don't have time for it.
This is why it's important that if you like someone's blog or story or photo or artwork you share it widely. Those of us who refuse to get down on our knees and lick Google's boots need that kind of person to person amplification.
@maxleibman If only we could stop writing for machine indexing. Now, so much of our "attention consumption" is filtered by such indexing that nobody will even notice us unless we write to those indices first.
@maxleibman@zymurgic agreed, but there is a codicil. Want content written for humans? Stop using discovery engines that hide out and prioritise length, keywords, and “engagement time”
@SockToy@zymurgic Yes, we definitely need a new paradigm of propagation and discovery. And we need it even if I’m wrong—even mighty Google is already a total shitshow, with carefully-calibrated garbage articles ranked well and outnumbering the good stuff hundreds (or thousands) to one.
Even before that paradigm comes (or if it doesn’t), I stand by my point—if one plays the game and what results isn’t good writing, one isn’t a good writer (and is, by choice of profession, part of the problem).
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