Post #1331554
2026-02-08 23:28 UTC
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I helped set up an open publishing activist news site for Aotearoa as part of the Indymedia network, that went online in 2000. It quickly became clear to me that if we really succeeded in our goals of getting connecting with activist outside the main cities, our mods would be drowning in the flood of articles being published, and needing review against our editorial guidelines. Even with the inherent filters of "Aotearoa" and "activism" and "news".
#Indymedia #InformationOverload
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-02-08 23:36
(3/?) This was always a risk for preprint servers, for similar reasons. Unless there's a proliferation of them, which creates a second order information overload problem; finding the various servers and sorting through them for the quality of what they publish. I think this parallel is worth exploring, because preprint servers came into existence for similar reasons to Indymedia newswires; hacking around an oligopoly of corporate publishing gatekeepers.