Hacker News Reader

This might be a short term hit to publishers, but maybe readers will eventually retrain to visit news sites directly rather than relying on Facebook and friends to select articles for them. This is very much a fight over who controls the entrance to the web and it's probably better it not get centralized into Google and Facebook. It didn't work out well for AOL and Yahoo.

View on HN

> maybe readers will eventually retrain to visit news sites directly rather than relying on Facebook and friends to select articles for them

Yes, one or two sites, not the whole press. Newspapers will get to see how much people really care about their content.

The other possible scenario is even more enticing: that smaller, or entirely new, outfits raise in popularity on Facebook and bring back the much needed plurality of voices.

There are more than enough voices on the internet most of them make as much sense as the voices some hear in their heads.

Its never been easier to share your perspective online. We are only barely now trying to make it a little harder to share evil and crazy and I think we aren't near done.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com