- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
Both Meta and Google have said they would remove Canadian news from their platforms to avoid having to compensate the news outlets.
Both Meta and Google have said they would remove Canadian news from their platforms to avoid having to compensate the news outlets.
Yes there does! Having bought subscriptions to a few of my favourite news sites, I’m struck by how much worse the experience is than something like google news. I’ll need to figure out something, because I only just want news, not a digital version of the newspaper and i certainly don’t want another 100 MB app.
Aggregation is a killer feature for news, and providers need to figure out how to make it work without a tech company eating their lunch. Either through activitypub or something else, but hopefully a public standard of some sort so they aren’t beholden to a corporation.
The unix greybeard method would be to use RSS and Baysean scoring of articles. A competent emacs user can whip up their own solution in an afternoon.
As a Unix greybeard I haven’t had time for that in decades!