How Twitter and the Internet Broke the News

Throughout the 2000s media was still in some significant sense balkanized. People did not just consume stories, they visited story sources, and the sources were numerous. Everything from trusted websites associated with legacy media institutions like the New York Times to popular aggregators like Drudge and blogs like the Huffington Post thrived, a... See more

With each year that passes, Legacy Media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post become increasingly dependent on social media to produce their content. When outlets like Twitter exist where people can get news from direct sources and analysis of information occurs through the  Wisdom of the Crowd , there are gradually fewer and f

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Substack wasn’t just about an economic trend of power flowing to individual writers thanks to the leverage technology gives them—it was about creating a morally superior playing field that could help heal our minds from the damage done by social networks. The Substack model wasn’t just a business strategy, it was a political philosophy.

I may be wrong about this, but I don't think a "better Twitter" starts with a service which is simply a clone of Twitter except with a different community. I think it starts with a community of independent (and independently monetizable) domains that we network together in novel ways, to build decentralized media.