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Is there is a website where unpaid people themselves report on tech news? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Mee@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am looking for a website that report on tech using semi-Citzen Journalism.

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[–] pescetarian@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

lemmy.ml

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not sure about a dedicated website but you can already do that by just having a blog and sharing your blog posts to a link aggregator (like Lemmy or Hacker News). You could possibly create a Lemmy community that only allows "grassroots" "journalism", ie no professional news articles but only amateur/hobbyist blog posts.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Lots of podcasts on that topic, many doing it 100% on their own dime, some asking for donations or subscriptions to cover production / hosting costs

[–] essell@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I don't know this, but I've heard that's what much of youtube has become

[–] kilo@monyet.cc 1 points 2 days ago

Lots of them start as citizen journalism, ultimately expecting to get paid one way or another after getting some traction.

[–] Morys@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably not what you're looking for but I find the https://alternativeto.net/ news pretty good for software

[–] natch@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there some kind of alternativeto astroturfing going on today? I see they just rolled out a website redesign, but I literally only know them as a spammy SEO-bait site I wind up clicking accidentally when I look for software recs. Everything on the site is generic and AI-generated as hell. Tons of ads, AI generated images, and dark patterns.

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[–] Morys@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

🤷 just my opinion as requested in the post. You've given yours. No idea what you mean about astroturfing