Hell, the website I get knitting patterns from has the same situation. The top 1% of designers make all the dough. But it’s great to have a platform that anybody can submit patterns to. The top designers pay the bills and they keep people coming back.
Podcasts, music, film, paintings, novels…Linux distributions, ice cream flavor sales…literally everything.
wh90b@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 month ago
The platforms also create the new top designers/performers by letting new talents submit for free.
Like live streaming, Twitch have no clue who’s going to become big and who’ll stay at 2 concurrent viewers. But you need to let everyone try, to be able to have the few that rises to the top
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Twitch streamers, YouTube channels, book best seller lists, radio play lists…
raze2012@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ice cream flavor sales
Strawberry’s fallen on hard times. We need to seize the means of chocolate production and distribute the wealth among all our fellow flavors.
ladicius@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Athletes.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Upvotes on lemmy posts…
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
You could indeed argue that lemmy follow similar patterns, for example threads posted in popular subs predates all other content. If you ask me this is a big problem and the result of a design shaped around advertising and content manipulation inherited from reddit.