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                1. I have some concerns about Post that are only getting deeper.
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                So people are asking for more detail and the answer is hard to put into solid points because it is more Vibes than facts but some things: ...
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              Issues include, in no particular order: - The points system and how it pushes interactions. - The founder's last company and statements about his opposition to privacy work at Google. - The policy around prerolled video - The apparent lack of alt text options...
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            - It's incredibly constant pushing of itself as a platform for "independent journalism" but no visible staff experience or employment at any journalism or media cos but plenty of experience at aggregation platforms...
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          - The prioritization of pricing & payment over safety controls. - Forcing of content to live on-platform to use those tools instead of giving or supporting publishers w/an interest in controlling their own platform. - The above and other similarities to Medium...
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        - Comments are not native to the platform but are powered by OpenWeb... which--for all the founders talk about payment-based journalism and how important it is--is a advertising company that happens to also do comments and has some troublesome events in its past.
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      - It does not appear that authors can moderate their own comments - Their content moderation rules are rather loose - They do not appear to have a clear appeals process for incorrectly moderated content - Individual Post pages all appear to have OpenNews's privacy policy linked
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    *OpenWeb


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