nillium

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Journalism Needs Your Help(letsgo.forth.news)
4 points by nillium 2y ago|1 comments
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Taking News Forth: original reporting with the look and feel of social(blog.nillium.com)
1 points by nillium 5y ago|0 comments
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News was never meant for social media(blog.nillium.com)
3 points by nillium 5y ago|0 comments
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by nillium 5y ago
Wrote this a little while back. Most news orgs -- especially local -- are being set up to fail in this environment. https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...
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Fact-checking is the wrong way to fight misinformation(blog.nillium.com)
2 points by nillium 5y ago|0 comments
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Forth Editorial Policy(forthapp.com)
3 points by nillium 5y ago|0 comments
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by nillium 5y ago
The problem with misinformation, ultimately, is that it is given a platform. We've reached an inflection point where people can truly believe these mistruths so deeply , that any fact checking is received as a personal attack -- and
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by nillium 6y ago
Of course, this is not ideal. There is a big difference between journalism and message boards -- though that isn't to say, of course, that there can't room for both. We've been working on a platform reimagining how local new
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Now what? The collateral damage of a tech backlash(blog.nillium.com)
29 points by nillium 6y ago|26 comments
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It took a siege at the US Capitol for social platforms to do the right thing(blog.nillium.com)
3 points by nillium 6y ago|2 comments
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“We need a well equipped press corps to keep us informed.”(blog.nillium.com)
5 points by nillium 6y ago|0 comments
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Forth: Concise updates with context, from journalists you can trust(forthapp.com)
2 points by nillium 6y ago|1 comments
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by nillium 6y ago
This is why we're building a news platform that sets up a different incentive structure than the current status quo. If publishers aren't desperate for clicks, there is no reason to stoop to outrage porn. https://blog.
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by nillium 6y ago
Substack can work for reporters who already have a following -- but we are trying to help those in local markets and earlier in their careers. From a user perspective, we're looking to give a holistic view of what's happening arou
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by nillium 6y ago
Apologies -- For now, yes, we are US specific. This requires a lot of individual connections and deals with newsrooms and reporters, so we had to start somewhere. Hopefully we can expand in the near future
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by nillium 6y ago
FWIW, we are working on this. Almost all of the issues listed in this thread can be traced back to the way aggregators and social networks end up monetizing (or not monetizing) news. We're trying something a little different: ht
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by nillium 6y ago
But that all requires an informed populace. The problem with Facebook (and others, of course) is that it warps all financial incentives for the publishers, while sapping revenue away from them. Now if you want any revenue at all, which is
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by nillium 6y ago
This is more like Amazon diverting the money that used to go to the book authors back to themselves, and then when the authors and publishers start layoffs and go bankrupt, people ask why the writing is so bad. Shameless plug, but we'r
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by nillium 6y ago
Continuing the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259370
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by nillium 6y ago
OP here: this is meant as a follow up to the comments in this thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249414
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News was never meant for social platforms(blog.nillium.com)
5 points by nillium 6y ago|1 comments
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Why we're not building an aggregator(blog.nillium.com)
3 points by nillium 6y ago|0 comments
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Why We're Building Forth: A new news platform(blog.nillium.com)
5 points by nillium 6y ago|0 comments
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by nillium 6y ago
OP here -- Decided to post this after this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154282 ) yesterday. As we said there, we're trying to take the convenience and brevity of social news updates, but use them to bu
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Why we're building Forth: A new news platform(blog.nillium.com)
6 points by nillium 6y ago|2 comments
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by nillium 6y ago
Apologies -- we are US specific at the moment. We have nothing against other countries, of course; but this requires us building relationships with individual news organizations and reporters, and we have to start somewhere -- so we are st
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by nillium 6y ago
Should be good now, an annoying configuration issue on a day that we got some unexpected interest! I also think we probably have the signups, even if it didn't display a nice confirmation.
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by nillium 6y ago
Exactly -- theyre trying to get whatever they can out of the website. We're hoping to create a more sustainable business model that doesnt turn off visitors.
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by nillium 6y ago
It does not try to tame the existing firehose, but instead gives a new stream that is limited to only to trustworthy journalists who are bound by our editorial policy ( https://www.forthapp.com/docs/policy.html ), and wi
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by nillium 6y ago
Thanks -- I will have a look to see whats going on. We definitely want to have you on board! There will be a free ad-supported tier for users, along with some form of paid add on, that we are working on now. At the moment, the main consum

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