Even large papers are unable to maintain their local news coverage. We need new solutions.

📺 Federal and state funding cuts have resulted in the loss of public television in NJ. 📰 Local newspapers are shutting down right-and-left. We need new sustainable models to fund and engage the public for democratic accountability.

Spent some time this weekend hooking up Algolia search for @path.pub . The Algoliax library made it pretty easy to get everything integrated and going. https://hexdocs.pm/algoliax/readme.html

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

for atproto devs, all the atproto tech news of the last week or so

Wow, this map of the AT Protocol ecosystem is very cool https://atp.fyi/network

Robinhood is doing a social network https://gizmodo.com/robinhood-launches-social-feed-stock-trades-2000656886

21. short-form social video is incredibly bad for society

Big shoutout to @alecperkins.me for his public service feed of hourly current weather with a photo. "Feels like" is a nice touch especially on a day like today: path.pub/f/claremontw...

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