Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday ( digiday.com )

The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

go ahead verge, you talked shit about Reddit.

DamienGramatacus ,

I love 404 Media. I wish i had enough disposable income to support them.

solrize ,

Wait their articles are paywalled. Are they only going to federate the clickbait teaser intros?

Metz ,

Wait their articles are paywalled.

Journalists have to pay for food and rent too. What is the alternative? ads?

The money has to come from somewhere.

lambalicious ,

The money comes from the companies that are hiring them to do the journalist work. Of course.

Let's be intellectually honest here. If a company has enough money that the boss can brand themself as "CEO" then it can pay at least living wages.

Marsupial ,
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How about corporations fuck off? Let us have our own small slice of people own and ran Internet back again.

pennomi ,

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

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