“The fracturing of the internet has been painful, but it’s also given us the chance to rebuild the media by focusing on our shared humanity.
Media companies that replace their writers with AI, continue to chase traffic by doing the same articles everyone else is doing, and focus heavily on appeasing social media platforms will continue to struggle.” —@jasonkoebler
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/declaring-platform-independence/
#Journalism #404Media
Koebler also says “Older internet technologies — namely email and RSS — are still some of the best for directly reaching readers, and newer decentralized ones like Mastodon’s ActivityPub and Bluesky’s AT Protocol look increasingly promising.”
One quibble here that AT Protocol isn’t truly decentralized, which @cwebber has been arguing and explaining really well:
https://social.coop/@cwebber/113647109852249805