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AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media (www.404media.co)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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this is an interesting article on the difficulties of running anything as SEO makes everything worse, AI proliferates, and things generally get worse for journalism. probably best summarized by this paragraph:

The long answer is that, through our own reporting, we are realizing that in order to combat the fracturing of social media platforms, a Google discoverability crisis fueled by AI generated spam and AI-fueled SEO, and a media business environment that is in utter freefall, we need to be able to reach our readers directly using a platform that we own and control. To do that, we need your email address.

but it's a very good read in general, and i'd encourage you to read the whole thing.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I understand the reason but any news site asking for my email is a automatic dns block on my dns server for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have that knee jerk reaction too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just add a character or two to my email address and filter it or use one of the addresses Firefox will generate.

Easy to filter then.