This is an excellent idea. This should be taken further though to protect readers too, in the age of surveillance capitalist fascism.
… As in a universal FOSS app for “news” where you can subscribe to both orgs and journalists (replacing substack), with zero tracking and zero knowledge subscriptions/donations, allowing users to subscribe/donate without any org or gov knowing which individuals are subscribed to which services, reading what content, communicating with which journalists, etc.
People have pointed out other secure, open-source messaging apps, but this is still pretty damn cool.
This is an excellent idea. This should be taken further though to protect readers too, in the age of surveillance capitalist fascism.
… As in a universal FOSS app for “news” where you can subscribe to both orgs and journalists (replacing substack), with zero tracking and zero knowledge subscriptions/donations, allowing users to subscribe/donate without any org or gov knowing which individuals are subscribed to which services, reading what content, communicating with which journalists, etc.