Everyone seems to agree that getting your news from social networks is a bad idea.
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Even advertisements can work to some extent in full-content posts, although you don't easily get the same level of targeting as with the click-through model.
@evan Only if there's a "More" button between lede and full content, in my opinion. Else it would make scrolling a nightmare, especially on mobile.
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We have a great opportunity to make the social news experience much better on the Fediverse.
I know that I'm a techno-utopian, but I believe that having more voices in the conversation is a net good, not a net evil.
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@evan Only if there's a "More" button between lede and full content, in my opinion. Else it would make scrolling a nightmare, especially on mobile.
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We have a great opportunity to make the social news experience much better on the Fediverse.
@evan Interesting thoughts but the bottom line is that independent journalism is a very costly endeavour (and you know have to fear that the US president will sue you for $10 billion). Giving out articles for free necessitates other streams of income which can be even more problematic (selling user data to the highest bidder, for example). The desirable wider sharing of content only becomes possible when more people are prepared to pay more for journalism’s role.
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@evan Interesting thoughts but the bottom line is that independent journalism is a very costly endeavour (and you know have to fear that the US president will sue you for $10 billion). Giving out articles for free necessitates other streams of income which can be even more problematic (selling user data to the highest bidder, for example). The desirable wider sharing of content only becomes possible when more people are prepared to pay more for journalism’s role.
@christianschwaegerl I didn't ask anyone to do anything for free. You should read it again.
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Very few commentators note how abominable the user experience for news is on social networking software.
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@christianschwaegerl I didn't ask anyone to do anything for free. You should read it again.
@evan But I’m confronted with that expectation a lot here. And while I think integrating micro-payments in social media could be beneficial for creators of all walks, resistance will be massive.
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@evan But I’m confronted with that expectation a lot here. And while I think integrating micro-payments in social media could be beneficial for creators of all walks, resistance will be massive.
1) That's not me. Go argue with those people directly.
2) One great part of the Fediverse is that you don't have to use anything you don't want to. Anyone who doesn't want to use subscriptions or ads or donations or whatever doesn't have to.
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I know that I'm a techno-utopian, but I believe that having more voices in the conversation is a net good, not a net evil.
Anyways, I think there is work to be done on making social network interfaces more conducive to good news reading. It's probably a reasonable research project for the Social Web Foundation and others.