Decentralize it. We're getting there. The details are:

Servers and apps for reading, watching and listening that require no middleman. See #ghost #wordpress @wallabag #peertube #owncast #podcasting

The social news feed that lets important news and ideas go viral without algos or anybody being able to shut down access for large portions of the network. That's everything using #ActivityPub.

Direct automatic funding of journalism using an open protocol. #interledger #PublicPatron #FediForFiat

@wjmaggos @wallabag

Don't forget #RSS

Still important, still free.

@bruce @wallabag

It's great but you can't boost it directly ala AP. I see AP as the successor to RSS. I'd like to see people using AP instead of RSS for podcasts. Still decentralized but it would make it possible for the actual episode, not just lots of different links to it, to go viral. With all the comments attached.

#APnative

@wjmaggos @wallabag
Support NPR and PBS.

@Nazani @wallabag

yes but that doesn't change the news environment. and everyone getting their news from only them would also not be healthy. that's still a kind of concentration where top level people have a bias and can be misinformed at times. we need their funding model but spread over the entire journalism landscape, where we get to decide what's most important together. the MAGA perspective grows cause it plays to our tabloid impulses, where the algo spreads anything we pause on.

@wjmaggos @wallabag And they used the book 1984 as a blueprint.

@EndicottAuthor @wallabag

maybe more Brave New World. the shitty system wins by being entertaining. the algo figures out what triggers us and they flood us with it. the problem is we've always not just cared about quality stuff but also conspiracies, people fighting and celebrities.

@wjmaggos @wallabag my take exactly. My first focus on all social media now is federated.

Anything owned by billionaires is an also ran.