#soylentnews — Public Fediverse posts

Is #soylentnews down? Thats my main source of news, was wondering what happened to it.

SoylentNews lives to see another day

https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=24/03/06/239238

#SoylentNews #slashdot #news

@Riyadh144 @tess Agreed. So what's less bad than ads to cover the cost of writing and hosting to ensure a site's #sustainability?
- #PayPerPage fails because of cards' 0.30 USD #SwipeFee.
- #Subscription per site (such as a news #paywall) discourages people from reading and citing articles on a site because readers are less willing to buy a month's or year's subscription to yet another site just for one article.
- Federated subscription under #AdultCheck worked for a few years until a magazine publisher sued them out of existence for not policing infringement by members.
- Tax-funded publishing reduces independence from the #StateMedia party line.
- Running a platform as a hobby isn't sustainable, as I've seen recently with #Miraheze and #SoylentNews threatening to close.
Is #LightningNetwork the answer?

Current progress on #SoylentNews is that the database is using multiple UTF-8 encodings, and I have that horrid experience that things might actually depend on this behavior and I'm scared ...

@sultmhoor Coincidentally I came across this post: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/110373196932125680

Note the first two words in the definitions of both “we need to rewrite it” and “#LegacyCode”: “It works.” If it’s profitable, you can pay down #TechnicalDebt with minimum “interest.”

But @ncommander admits #SoylentNews never had a sustainable business or community governance model.

Does #Perl lack millions of cheap commodity #programmers? Yes. But the ones it has are force multipliers.

But sure, blame the language.

I just read @ncommander 's post about the shutdown of #SoylentNews and the one thing that really struck me was this:

>Growth of some sort is important because communities have a natural attrition rate.

It makes me wonder when #HackerNews is going to suffer the same fate.

#SoylentNews
Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/11/22/163227

#SoylentNews status update
https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=22/11/20/0342250

@ncommander

Thank you for the work.
Could you post #SoylentNews status here since
http://www.soylentnews.org has been down for a while now? Just noticed http://soylentnews.org is up.

#SoylentNews
for people who care about SoylentNews

https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=22/11/12/1229226