I’m having this internal debate as well.
I run a blog. I write content and I’m surprised at what gets visits. But I also don’t care about popularity. It’s a place where I can relay information.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job (I did not). But they’re so incredibly involved in every single “drama” that every talk about coding with them ends up being about how x-person on Twitter is a jerk or how to game the system.
Seems exhausting, and I wonder if it’s worth it.
Same here. At this point I’ve effectively become an internet ‘hermit’ and avoid social media. Sometimes I’d even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don’t know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don’t even ‘touch grass’ either. And yes, I’m autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.
Good for you, I’d consider my online “diet” to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones
I still like to make video content, so I post it on my self hosted PeerTube instance instead: http://tube.jeena.net
That way I’m far awaybfrom fame but also drama ^^
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job
That’s surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
On youtube barely, on twitch for sure. Generally you would have more income streams like a patreon and some such. Maybe even merch. If you’re doing it all solo, you can easily earn 4-5k per month with these numbers and that’s often better than many full time jobs.
How do you count your visits? I don’t even see whether mine has visits or not lol. I am not even sure if counting people would count as “tracking”, so I am not sure whether it’s acceptable in my books. The only feedback I got were a couple of emails.
