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Genius: How to go from “the future of journalism” to a fire sale
- warrenm 5y agoUnfettered annotation/commenting/etc is great ... in theory But all of those bits of stuff need to be stored somewhere If the underlying sites hosting what's being marked-up won't do it, then the third-party (like Genius) has to stick around
- warrenm 5y agoI wonder what it would take to build and/or self-host (maybe as a browser plugin+local storage, even) such an annotator
- rvz 5y agoThis is a better link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550527 > They were non-Black people making money off of an overwhelmingly Black art form. And? So what? That is the free market. How irrelevant.