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.
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Probably not what you’re looking for but I find the https://alternativeto.net/ news pretty good for software
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.
Mods, take note.
🤷 just my opinion as requested in the post. You’ve given yours. No idea what you mean about astroturfing
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
I don’t know this, but I’ve heard that’s what much of youtube has become
