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      1. …in reply to @MattSaccaro
        MattSaccaro I think individual sites will survive but in a radically different form, basically as wellsprings for pushing content elsewhere
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      MattSaccaro The movement towards atomized news means eventually we'll see sites that understand articles as a set of components, not wholes
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    MattSaccaro Then the sites just have to understand platforms as limited contexts that can take particular components of an article.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      MattSaccaro The failure of infrastructure cost to dive any further means processes to mitigate cost thru external publishing are important.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        MattSaccaro Minimizing costs by narrowing traffic numbers to core site to a limited audience who can be highly programatically valued...
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          MattSaccaro ... seems to be the unavoidable direction we are going. To keep a journalistic mission, low value readers will be pushed to...
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            MattSaccaro ...consume content via platforms whose infrastructure costs publishers don't need to pay. And possibly who pay publishers.
            1. …in reply to @Chronotope
              MattSaccaro Or maybe we'll solve ad fraud and the bot problem and this won't be a concern, but that seems a lot less likely.


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