- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
It’s a shame! It was actually a good news source with a curated feed not run by Google!
• Artifact app to be shut down, citing a small market opportunity and the need to focus on newer projects.
• App’s complexity and operations will be slimmed down, with the removal of the ability to add new comments and posts.
• Existing posts will remain visible, and core news reading capabilities will continue until the end of February.
Freedium link: https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419
There’s a thread from last week where some other alternatives were discussed: among them
I think the concept of a “mixed reader” that can pull in Big Social / Fediverse / RSS and other curated sources has a lot of potential (Nuggets is the most interesting one to me here)
Thanks!
Unfortunately a lot of these are Apple-only and/or just RSS readers. I’ll miss Artifact’s algorithm.