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(random HN commenter opinion) “Networking” and “cross pollination discovery of authors and readers” == community. Community and free speech works with balanced diversity, where no one group can overwhelm another’s speech, especially during early childhood phases of a community’s development, before norms have emerged for the community to defend itself against threats external or internal.
Diversity of what? Opinions ? Facts ? Beliefs?
This isn’t a new business model and plenty of people and organizations already charge money for newsletters or subscriptions for content. There’s been plenty of academic papers from economists focusing on journalism detailing the issues, but put simply: There’s two ways to monetize, 1) Ads where businesses are the customer, 2) Pay per use (one time or subscriptions) where the reader is the customer. The problem with…
(1) The problem with subscriptions is that it's unfathomable to subscribe all over the place. I live in New Jersey, so I'm not going to subscribe to the LA Times even if they have some great coverage of a particular topic.
(2) The problem with ads is that they are INSANELY annoying to see all the time. Period.
My company, reallyread.it, is going to be uniquely positioned to make "pay per use" (aka just reading something) a reality. It's the Holy Grail for all of us: Spotify for News - one premium subscription that unlocks everything, everywhere. We're on it. ;)
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Diversity of what? Opinions ? Facts ? Beliefs?
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In case I’m being overly obtuse - my point is that we are not allowed the generality of previous thinkers she. Discussing free speech and human communication.
Diversity is a great term, but it’s too broad since all positions(intersect)contexts are not equal.
We do not have the ability to touch upon ideas in some Newtonian or conceptual space. We have to very much work on them with human brains and their limits and weaknesses.
So when we say diversity - what diversity do we mean? Otherwise it’s the same as political speech where they want equality/growth/fairness and so on.
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We can have diversity of hate speech. That would obviously be bad right? In case I’m being overly obtuse - my point is that we are not allowed the generality of previous thinkers she. Discussing free speech and human communication. Diversity is a great term, but it’s too broad since all positions(intersect)contexts are not equal. We do not have the ability to touch upon ideas in some Newtonian or conceptual space. We…
To provide a contrived response to your contrived example, diversity of historical and fictional hate speech could be appropriate in an academic community focused on those topics.
To connect the topic to this AMA, many communities will emerge among the writers and readers of Substack and they will change over time due to audience growth and feedback loops within and between Substack communities.