“Now that we’ve killed your industry, it’s time to move on.”

Meta is threatening the world with the reintroduction of seeking out news sources instead of using a feeding tube.

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I wrote the above to the comment mentioned small player can’t pay the link fee to new agencies, be it blog or their own community website etc. It’s targeted to people that actually wanted to write something but does not belong to a new agency. You would still need to link to government or whatever publicly available info as source, that way you don’t fall into a “rumor” site and you can do your own piece at your own pace and investigation. Everyone needs to start somewhere.

    We are at the age where the entry to publication is very minimum, but to gain regular viewer/audience is hard. (on top of having to combat AI generated garbage that are search engine optimized. )

    Honestly. everyone should “check source” and not blindly read and eat up all the spoon fed stuff, cause many times a article is an influence piece, not a report that just layout the facts and information. From how the agency decides the title, how they quote or present information, and how they know many people don’t actually want to know details and just want to throw upvote or have a fake emotional outlet by complaining in the comments.