>>This video’s first part<< is his pitch for the website if you want to hear it from him directly.
But basically he wants to make a website that is fully ad-free, truly independant and community-funded, not funded by publishers or venture capital. With pieces written not by AI bots but actual people that don’t need to pander to SEO in their titles or articles.
In Italy we have FinalRound.it that is ad free, independent and donation based (only in Italian though)