If you pay for Netflix, but you complain about writers having paywalls, you just told us an awful lot about your worldview and your values and it’s not fucking pretty.
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@Daojoan Netflix is $10/month, plain and simple. But nobody can subscribe to dozens of publications at that price.
What they need to do is start to charge per piece, a small amount. People would pay a dollar (for instance) to read one article they're especially interested in. I don't know why this hasn't already happened tbh.
@babs_at_masto it has happened multiple times, and it’s failed. It’s costly to implement, every transaction costs credit card fees that someone has to pay that eat into the profit, and in every case, users have not adopted the tech and used it to pay for content.
Nobody’s asking readers to subscribe to every paywall. Just like viewers don’t pay for every streaming service. But if you pay for Netflix, pick one creator or news service and pay for that too. Just one.