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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 77 points 8 months ago (31 children)

Journalism has become an absolute dumpster fire for almost anyone trying to do actual journalism. No wonder corporations are running roughshod over us all, the industry is hostile to anyone not willing to be some sort of shill.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 22 points 8 months ago (26 children)

And people will bitch and moan about a paywall.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago (15 children)

The problem with paywalled isn't an unwillingness to pay for quality, its being attacked with a subscription when we don't want to be locked into a single source. Today I want a good article on popular particle physics, tomorrow I want to know whats going on with education in Nigeria. Let me make a quick crypto micropayment with no fuss and I'll read your article, try to make me a lifelong subscriber and get fucked.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

LOL ‘crypto’

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 11 points 8 months ago

They just snuck that turd in there lol

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm extremely skeptical of crypto but micro payments and donations seem like one of the most plausible applications for it since the infrastructure can be operated for basically free to receive money and there isn't a large corporation taking a cut of every transaction unlike credit cards

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Which crypto network are you talking about that can be operated for free? PoW is expensive and wasteful, and PoS is pretty much back to a regular database again.

At the end of the day here, this is a simple transaction ledger that doesn’t need to be turned into crypto, it just needs a party interested in moving the money around in these micropayments with minimal fees.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -4 points 8 months ago

😅 Crypto Bad!! Crypto bro dumb! 😅

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