# The Attention Market Is Broken

Source: https://mirror.xyz/0x51665825742d7BDdDe2c24e4E48dF23662c24Ed5/ZDq7XmkH_zBXQwFBEZ_2mXBYGnrrg57CxlaqmmKYH1U
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Attention-Market-Is-Broken?index=0x66fa8cf6578095c3582320d1c8f82f2e696ba2c0415cef4d7dff04c0f31b9838f9e465c3
Submitted by misha on 2024-09-30 UTC, 7 upvotes, 2 comments

## Comments

**tim**: Amazing result for asking thinking sand a question. To be fair though we already know that markets aren‘t solving all our problems and that externalities exist. 

**macbudkowski.eth**: "Show me incentives, and I'll show you the outcome." 

The main product of these platforms is the attention they're selling to advertisers, so this is the only thing they optimize for. To change that, we need to change the business model. And I am happy that we see experiments in paid social networks (FC, Lens) that don't rely on ads.