• riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh no. So maybe dont post them at all? Those sites can go fuck themselves. Theres plenty of ads but i have to subscribe too. To each and every one of them. Soon im gonna buy more “news” subscriptions then beer in a month.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      There’s the crux — unless you’re a library, a corporation, or a rich bastard, nobody can afford to buy a subscription to every publication on the web, or even every publication they read. I sure can’t.

      A ‘micropayment’ system would be an answer and provide support for independent media. You purchase a subscription to many or most news sites, and those sites are paid incrementally based on what sites you visit and articles you read.

      Newspapers hate that idea, though. They don’t want a few dollars from each of many people; they want bigger dollars from smaller audiences, I guess.