• Dark Arc
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    03 months ago

    This is a bad take.

    Paywalls are the norm of traditional journalism. People got so used to a bunch of spammy, ad-fed, click bait journalism and now many are not willing to pay for good articles.

    I wish there was a better way to discuss these kinds of articles. There are sometimes gift links which are best for smaller group discussions… But nobody’s found a model that isn’t the mess that is ads that also allows “free viewing.”

    • ThePowerOfGeek
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      03 months ago

      See my response to sometime else about this a bit further down, if you like.

      But I disagree it’s a “bad take”. I just didn’t word it as clearly at I should have.

    • southsamurai
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      03 months ago

      Eh, newspapers amd magazines had ads, they were just easier to skip

      • Dark Arc
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        03 months ago

        They also had subscriptions… And paywalls… You had to buy them from a newspaper stand or subscribe to have the paperboy deliver them…

        • southsamurai
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          03 months ago

          Yes, I’m aware. That’s an extension of what you said that I responded to.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      03 months ago

      Paywalls are the norm of traditional journalism. People got so used to a bunch of spammy, ad-fed, click bait journalism and now many are not willing to pay for good articles.

      Huh. You’re not wrong. Newspapers were classic user-fee newsfeeds.

      But you could give away your paper when you were done. Is that early BitTorrent?

      • @criitz@reddthat.com
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        03 months ago

        Other differences: When you bought a newspaper you got a physical product. You could read it, keep it, frame it, craft with it, or whatever you want. It took labor and machinery to create and distribute. The online article costs nothing to make, isn’t something you can keep or use in any way, in fact at any point you might lose access to it.