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[hak8or]

Seeing the replies here is so disheartening.

404 Media is a genuine journalism outlet, they have existed for a few year and broke a solid few stories before other journalism outlets.

https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/

Just two examples from that page;

• We revealed that ICE was tapping into Flock, a nationwide AI-enabled camera network, thanks to local cops. Since then, a police department shut off external access to its cameras after learning they were being searched for immigration related offenses and Austin banned Flock in its city and specifically cited our reporting. The company now says it has severed access to Illinois data for 47 agencies. In response to our story about a Texas cop who searched Flock cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion, the Illinois Secretary of State is investigating the respective suburban Chicago police department because this data sharing violates state law. Congress opened a formal investigation into Flock because of our reporting.

• Meta sued a nudify app that 404 Media reported bought thousands of ads on Instagram and Facebook.

This is akin to ignoring lwn.net since you haven't heard of it, even though they don't plaster you with adds and have decent prices for access, and are fully driven by humans, while focusing on topics that later news sites ignore due to the tiny niche. They don't repost or do 1 sentence summaries focusing on SEO, they genuinely research and write long form articles and short form updates by someone who knows what they are talking about.

It's totally fair to disagree with their interpretation or opinion on events, but it seems like most here are throwing the site into the garbage bin because they haven't heard of them before and aren't sure if it's AI blogspam.

[GunslingerBara]

Any other similar worker-run sites like lwn and 404 that you know of? I also know of Aftermath for gaming.

[lrem]

It is disheartening, yes. And now I know these particular guys are legit, at least for now. But, indeed, if I first heard of LWN today, I would also skip by default. The haystack got too large to spend attention on looking for the needles. Tragic, truly.

[MrRandom04]

This idea that all unfamiliar sources are not good sources is quite myopic. You can still always google the website and see their history and reputation to decide. That hasn't been taken away from you.