How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh - eviltoast
  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    the biggest question would be how to defend it from spammers and corporations with potentially much more money.

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      9 months ago

      One answer that’s proven to work is by involving a lot of people’s labor in the editorial/curation process. Similar to how posting/commenting/voting/moderation work on Lemmy, how it’s worked on Reddit and other human-driven platforms. Corporations have proven on multiple occasions that paying for this labor is not feasible and so a system that depends on it should be corpo-resistant or capital-resistant.

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        9 months ago

        well reddit did that and was full of shills and bots, vote manipulation, and more, this approach completely failed for them.

        and they do put a lot of money into it.