Nice! Was also thinking about how this could be a way to bring more people back to “traditional” media. But with the current paywalls it’s really hard to implement. Once you click on an article you potentially like your currently unable to read it…
I was considering it at the time, my idea was to offer a subscription that would redistribute revenue to publishers in exchange for skipping the paywall. This was all a hypothetical plan for a class, of course, and other attempts at bundling news subscriptions have failed. Most existing news aggregators just show a headline and standfirst, and that seems to work.
Another concern was reinforcing bias. You'd need to show people articles about things they care about, but at the same time, you don't want to put people in bubbles. It's a pretty tough balance to strike.
Yes makes sense probably easier said than done, you would need at least one big publisher on your side to begin with.
Regarding bias, I’m current using a 70/30 exploitation/exploration split and add time weighting onto that. So you should always have ~3 new articles outside your “bubble” per 10 articles you swipe.
