[thoroughburro]

Older folks might remember that there were a lot of people willing to make content free, just out of personal enthusiasm, and that this content was actually a lot higher quality than that pumped out by capitalist motivation.

So, actually, users and sites both had what they wanted, just not corporations.

[LunaSea]

I agree and these people still exist.

However not all content can be produced this way, news or sports coverage would be an example.

[account42]

You get faster and better news coverage from random people on social media than news corporations these days.

[LunaSea]

Although I agree that news media quality is not always great (really depends from one publisher to another), I would not really qualify random people on Twitter as "news coverage".

[beej71]

Especially given how likely it is that bots are or will soon be rampant.