Big Media in Canada, which are ruthlessly squeezing every last loonie out of our once-profitable news media, used their remaining political influence to shake down the digital giants with the Online News Act in hopes of cashing in big on the runaway success of the platforms. In the process, they have put Canada’s emerging online media and niche publications in the emergency ward.
Maybe news needs to break free of the facebook teat and go HARD with a lemmy site for federated news dispatch.
Like, I’m okay never having a login for lemmy.cbc.ca but I’d read the hell out of stories linked and posted from it.