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How does one discover new writers in this world of balkanized newsletters? Even more importantly, how does one get exposed to different perspectives? Not necess

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• fossuser 6y ago
  On one hand there’s a risk people just go deeper into their own echo chambers with more extreme writers catering to only their audience. That said, I actually have seen the opposite. The freedom from ads, low overhead, and editorial independence allows writers to go more in depth and discuss nuanced topics with people they may disagree with. This isn’t a guarantee and it probably doesn’t have to be that way, but the variety of newsletters I read have a lot more depth than most of the articles in the NYT on any given day. You’re right though that there’s a vacuum for discovery and community that needs to be filled in a world of decentralized independent platforms. I think there are probably interesting things there that have yet to be built.
• BurningFrog 6y ago
  I guess only after the writers have "atomized" can they be reaggregated into new dynamic configurations. If I could pick my few favorite writers and combine them with some curated feeds I trusted, including a few "bubble bursters" giving me the top ranked stuff from people I consider idiots, that might just be a nice new news & commentary ecosystem!
• Illniyar 6y ago
  Distributed producers of content isn't a new phenomena. You have 3 ways of discovery in these environments - curation/aggregation, discovery services and attribution.
• wyclif 6y ago
  Bundling is one way newsletter writers get discovered.