[-] dango@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

@Etnies419 no, if you read the article even linking requires payment. That's why they're removing results entirely, rather than just removing summaries like they did in other countries

But to the point, in those countries leaving the links but removing the summaries also resulted in significant reductions in traffic for the news orgs.

@NarrativeBear @fubo

[-] dango@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

@fubo yeah, unfortunately these types of laws try to have their cake and eat it too

A similar law was passed in France, and predictably France news orgs lost significant traffic and cried foul.

It makes no sense to charge a search engine for the privilege of bringing customers to your website, and these types of laws always have predictable outcomes.

[-] dango@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Texas republican voters don't care, and the rest of the texans who didn't vote for this are also the most impacted.

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submitted 1 year ago by dango@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

this section autopopulated with the text of the article but that seems a bit much - go read on the website

cohost seems to be losing money very fast, seems like their donations only model hasn't scaled with their userbase

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submitted 1 year ago by dango@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

Digg was having a rough year. Our CEO left the day before I joined. Senior engineers ghosted out the door, dampening productivity and pulling their remaining friends. We had only one remaining shot at revival, launching our two-years in the making rewrite: Digg v4. It did not go as planned.

dango

joined 1 year ago