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For those who don’t know, this financial trouble goes back to ranking changes made by Google 2012-2014, and since then, Google and Facebook drying up the ad market for blogs and competing social networks.

Recently, Jessamyn West, a longtime community member, moderator, and Internet Archive alum bought the site and has brought on a committee of community members to run Metafilter with broader membership input.

Metafilter isn’t perfect, but it’s old growth Internet that respects readers and members and respects RSS and semantic web principles.

We really need Internet homes and watering holes like Metafilter to not just stay alive, but become healthier. Apparently that takes several thousand dollars a month. As a longtime reader, I’m contributing and hope others also will.