We’re Shutting Down The Pika Pulse - Building Pika Out Loud
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What Jamie wrote
Pika is another great blogging service made by the wonderful folks over at Good Enough. Similar to Micro.blog's Discover feed, Pika made the Pulse feed as a way to support discovery of new blogs. It sounds like it was using a random selection of articles.
We're a small team and we want the bulk of our time and energy to be spent building the best software we can. It's not possible for us to read everything on The Pulse and ensure it's suitable to promote to a larger audience. It was a mistake to launch something that deserves to be moderated.
Their decision highlights to me how hard it is to both be a publishing solution and an aggregator at the same time. If you provide a solution to help people put their words and images on the Internet I believe you should have no opinion about what those words and images are as long as it is legal.
However if you are an aggregator you are fundamentally making choices. You are an editor. If you have AI do it, or a random number generator, you are no less an editor you are just using something other than a person to select what to highlight.