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.
@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 @Daojoan the problem per-piece is the repeated entering of payment information as well as the base transaction fees that card companies charge.
But also for the list of subscriptions it's the same basic problem as streaming services too... when it's a single service that provides the vast majority of what you want, that's great... maybe if it's 2 or 3 services... but when it's 8 or 9...
And useful to note how streaming compares vs buying individual episodes/movies/songs...
I think there could be a service that does this, though - a central sort of clearinghouse you might pay a monthly fee to (or get billed at the end) and then just charge against that fee or whatever.
But maybe there's just not a market for it, I don't know.
I have never had more than 1 streaming service at a time, myself! Can't imagine paying for more than one, but then I'm kind of cheap....
@shiri @Daojoan
I would definitely pay for single articles, and often wish I could.