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I have some concerns about Post that are only getting deeper.Permalink On twitter.com
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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: ...Permalink On twitter.com
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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...Permalink On twitter.com
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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...Permalink On twitter.com
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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...Permalink On twitter.com
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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.Permalink On twitter.com
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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 linkedPermalink On twitter.com
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Now... the OpenNews stuff is particularly troubling considering the founder's rhetoric about subscription/payment based journalism. But all of this *could* be startup jitters. I'm not here to tell you the platform is bad or canceled or anything like that...Permalink On twitter.com
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But I'm extremely wary of how it is set up and the business that is running it. I will try it out because I'll try everything, but also, I am not yet interested in promoting it or me on there without a better handle on what is going on there. So yeah... I have concerns.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, just like the whole... vibe of the main feed is a little weird and it feels very unfinished even in the features that are presumably the focus of its launch? ... If you want people to do full-length articles like Medium (which I think they do) they need to be able to editPermalink On twitter.com
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Also, for the sake of trying the platform on its own terms I put up a Post that I pay-walled for 1 "pt" and uhhh... I can't read my own post. Seems like that would be a thing basic QA would have caught?Permalink On twitter.com
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If you are not familiar with the issues with OpenWeb, you can start here: catthekin/1596223818775040000Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm pretty concerned that signing up for Post means that you are also implicitly agreeing to OpenWeb's privacy policy and terms, all things considered.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also... uhhh... don't do this. This is obnoxious.Permalink On twitter.com
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(I said OpenNews a few times in this thread and meant OpenWeb every time, sorry about that)Permalink On twitter.com
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Just realized... there's no way to see if someone replied to your Post, "@"ed you, or "RePosted" one of your posts that I can see? Starting to wonder if the pitch for this platform was "what if Medium had a bad commenting system".Permalink On twitter.com
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Uhhh I have more concerns about Post now. Chronotope/1596276520506593281Permalink On twitter.com
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For those curious about the founder's statements about why he left Google that were troubling me, those are archived here - web.archive.org/web/20210622142952/https://paygo.media/p/25171On twitter.com
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The CEO edited his welcome post so it no longer says that you are endowed with unalienable rights that are protected based on a set of categories including "net worth". New version has removed that specific phrase. Archived version here: web.archive.org/web/20221119190504/https://post.news/Permalink On twitter.com
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Continuing to get strong Medium vibes, as in: a startup that thinks it has all the solutions to paying for news but hasn't actually checked what anyone else has tried. Chronotope/1597101905679093760Permalink On twitter.com
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