I’m not the person to ask since I’ve long since stopped reading and engaging on the Wikitribune’s post legacy attempt to produce classic journalism news through a donation/free model but notably without legacy subscription models that included ad support. That changed model apparently had all the structure of a subreddit group if you know about that portal. I also did not like the online format, I know, Okay Boomer.
After attempting the new social format, before the newer morph into some URL named ‘WT.Social’ which is a new registration(?) (no one, including myself, seems to know much about its structure or inner workings, apparently started in Oct. 2019) business(?) entity, obviously I did not register for this evolutionary social news blog.
Yes, I’m in my 60s and prefer a more classic curated news platform, but we must realize that just like the Medium platform what we have here with the new differently enabled social news blog platform has just as much opportunity, if not more so, to multiply agendas and personal opinions, including social editors, also having opinions if not some agendas of their own, as the previous WikiTribune apparently was reported or noted for? At least that was apparently part of the reasoning for exiting the previous WikiTribune model. Personally and possibly cynically I don’t buy any of that. Free subscribers and donation subscribers were not provided with much reasoning for continuing costs of the initial launch started sometime back in 2017. Just like great investigative journalism the readership had no real ‘follow the money’ reasoning associated with the changes, not the least of which was terminating the learned journalist staff from the initial launch of WikiTribune.
You might think that I think the morphing of the original WikiTribune news beta, to its new social news blog home was all about the money rather than much of anything about editorial anything, and in the absence of detailed reporting analysis you would be right, IMO, I believe the finances and future projected finances of the original WikiTribune was the unreported story, especially for subscribers or any of the other readership. At least we could have heard or read about that story, then folks like myself could have sucked it up and said, okay, that was that.
Sorry, regarding the WT.Social news blog platform, I think it’s a completely different animal.
addendum: yep, I get it, the past few years the I-net is all about the subscription upsell, everywhere online, everywhere(!). This leads to a mature and saturated online business model, and that can quite possibly lead to a monopolist take-over of the online news, meaning those with deep pockets take over the news subscription revenue streams, big time. It's like legacy oil corporations buying up renewable energy installations and 5 years down the road marketing energy customers options to death. I guess in 5–10 years we will all be able to note the evolution of online news and if it is at all related to classic journalism.
