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 "Addressing the Maker-Taker challenge is essential for the long-term sustainability of open source projects. Drupal's approach may provide a constructive solution not just for WordPress, but for other communities facing similar issues." #Technology https://werd.io/2024/solving-the-maker-taker-problem "ProPublica, the nation’s leading nonprofit investigative newsroom, is in search of a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on our publishing systems and core website." If this sounds like you, I'd love to work with you. https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 #getfedihired #journalism #engineering #jobs If you're an exceptional engineer who cares about both the open web and non-profit journalism in the public interest, this is the opportunity for you. Please do apply - and let me know if you have any questions. That link again: https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 @ben how much of a WordPress focused job is this? I have a decent amount of pre-block editor experience building themes and plugins, but it’s been a little while. By secretly paying some creators to post on Threads, Meta is undermining trust in everyone's motivations. Suddenly everyone is assumed to be "engagement farming": https://werd.io/2024/threads-is-trading-trust-for-growth The folks at @19thnews are committed to covering voting rights in this very important election - as they should. It's worth your time to take a look. If you have the means, consider supporting their work. https://19thnews.org/2024/05/voting-rights-coverage-2024/ Buried here: "Vox Media’s technology news publication The Verge says it also has plans to federate its own site to have more ownership over its content and audience." #Media https://digiday.com/marketing/as-tiktok-ban-threatens-stability-in-social-media-ecosystem-some-brands-settle-into-the-fediverse/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. We report on abuses of power in the public interest - stories like corruption on the Supreme Court. It was the first outlet to win a Pulitzer for web-first journalism. And if you donate through this link, you'll let our team know that Mastodon is an audience to pay attention to. https://give.propublica.org/give/346528/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=mstdn #journalism #fediverse #mastodon
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@ben @ProPublica I have donated. Unfortunately, Mastodon is not one of the social media choices to share that. Holy wow - the Mastodon community really came through. This is huge, and makes a massive difference for our reporting. Thank you everyone - and thank you for showing how active and engaged this network is!  @ben @ProPublica Pay no attention to the trolls! 🙄 We need to normalize people asking for money for journalism on Mastodon. Period. End of story. No additional preamble or context required. The End. Thanks for all you do! 👏 "It would not be worth all that to make a game that is a single stupid joke. And I like games that are single stupid jokes, and so I guess I have spent a few years in the hopes that I can let more people make more of them." This is lovely. #Technology https://v21.io/blog/downpour?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon Flipboard is making its entire platform fediverse-compatible, allowing anyone on any fediverse platform (eg Mastodon, Pixelfed, and eventually Threads) to follow content shared there. #Technology https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006062/flipboard-fediverse-mastodon-activitypub-profiles-social?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon I love that #indieweb releases for #elgg keep coming. Nice work, @elgg! https://elgg.org/plugins/3292492 Reuven Lerner was banned from advertising on Meta products for life because he offers Python and Pandas training - and the company's automated system thought he was dealing in live snakes and bears. #AI https://lerner.co.il/2023/10/19/im-banned-for-life-from-advertising-on-meta-because-i-teach-python/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon  The thing that bugs me the most about Spotify’s podcast implosion is all those people who thought it would be better to partner with them than publish on their own terms. You’re always better off publishing on the web independently. Always. It’s more lucrative, more sustainable, and far less risky for your organization overall. Every newsroom that publishes on the web should have an RSS feed. It's quick and cheap to support, and not doing it is reader-hostile. https://werd.io/2023/every-news-publisher-should-support-rss @ben Not only is it good for readers who directly access the RSS feed, it's good for pushing out to social media. We have a feed that sends out every article on a schedule, plus it's used to assemble the article list for our newsletter. Far from being obsolete, RSS is a powerful tool.  @ben I agree with you that RSS feed support would be very welcome. That said, let's say you're talking to someone at a major news outlet. They raise a point about tracking engagement. They raise another point about revenue incentives. They raise another point about syndication control, their archive model, and the disruption to their business model. I've heard all of these at various times from various stakeholders. It's case by case, obviously, but hard to provide answers for everything |
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