Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Sound like you basically want to crowdsource/democratise the editorial process. The Facebook newsfeed kind of already does that, and that's resulted in most people feasting on a diet of garbage content.

This is the narrative, yes

Doesn't the existing model mean that you semi-regularly come across random content/knowledge that you otherwise never would have discovered? Isn't that worth something?

If I wanted to buy that, I would. I don't. I follow a group of ridiculously intelligent people who consistently direct my limited attention and time toward really, really superb ideas. I get a lot more out of their curation than that of newspaper editors.

The problem is that the most people prob don't have as carefully curated a sourcing system as you. So they'll just load up on anti-vax tripe shared by conspiracy theorists. Then the media will redirect their attention and produce the most lucrative content. Then we all die

Yep, that's the narrative: people are too dumb; the mainstream must lead them by the nose. I have my concerns with this story.

That's an unfair reduction. And besides, there is already proof of the impact of what you're looking for out there - Facebook, which (to continue the vaccination theme) has become a pox on humanity.

What's the proof? And what's fhe solution, if not externally-curated content? I'm genuinely trying to follow you, here.