Re:Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
by forgotmypw17 on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:55PM
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I think this is only a short-term effect. In response to things becoming more locked down, more and more "info liberation" projects will take root, and in the end the information will just gradually all leak out and end up outside the prison wall, in compatible, accessible formats. Then, eventually, even the sources of the information will switch to publishing it in the libresphere, because at that point the best audiences will be there too.
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I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
Looking at all of history, I'm very optimistic. Going way back to Cuneiform and the printing press, and the internet itself, they all point to a general principle of the breaking up of monolithic information sources over time. It might take a while, but it'll happen with the internet too.
Re:Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
by neverspecial on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:50PM
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What you describe in the digital age will be an illusion of freedom. Delivery of the bits will still be locked down tighter than ever. Delivery allows filtering. The future is very bleak.
Re:Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
by DSingularity on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:38PM
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Sad that the internet is now considered a “monolithic information source”. But yay for unicorns I guess.
It's how things went down with aol
Isn’t the Wikipedia current events portal just that?
Who will do the work to make this so and what is their motivation?
Re:Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
by forgotmypw17 on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:37PM
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I think it will be hackers just like you and me, and our motivation will be making information accessible and the world a better place.
It may seem optimistic, but I'm also optimistic about what our reality "optimizes" for.