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I agree, something feels impure about paying for knowledge, we should be pushing back on any kind of pay wall. That said, I'm really not sure what system shoul

by bArray 9y ago

I agree, something feels impure about paying for knowledge, we should be pushing back on any kind of pay wall. That said, I'm really not sure what system should be put in place to pay for quality content.

paulryanrogers 9y ago
Must it be paying for knowledge? What about paying for convenience of accessing it anytime anywhere and in a timely manner? Ultimately someone has to do the research and legwork. If they don't get paid they'll do less/none.
- ac29 9y ago
  Blogs are already convenient to access anywhere, anytime and in a timely manner. Its called RSS. Not sure how $5/month would improve on that.
  - bArray 9y ago
    The content for that RSS feed has to come from somewhere though. RSS is cool, but it doesn't seem sustainable by itself.
- bArray 9y ago
  >Must it be paying for knowledge? What about paying for convenience of accessing it anytime anywhere and in a timely manner? I'm willing to put up with a considerable amount of inconvenience for open content, including advertising (as long as they are not tracking or using unknown scripts). $5/month is also a lot of money to me, that currently covers: website, IRC, VPN and a game server. Most the people here may be on a better than average wage working within tech fields, so I imagine opinions to be skewed. >Ultimately someone has to do the research and legwork. If they don't get paid they'll do less/none. I mentioned this originally and I'm not entirely aware of how to tackle this - but I think the overall cost to the user financially should be really low or nonexistent. That could mean an attention economy, mining coin on a specialized chip, or whatever other reasonable means. It should also be a choice where possible. Another idea I thought of a while back would be to have people reading the content help share the load of hosting by acting as a peer. There's some not very well supported server sockets (last time I checked) coming for browsers that could make this possible, but equally with a well designed client. Potentially the more popular the content, the less it costs to run.

by bArray 9y ago

paulryanrogers 9y ago

Must it be paying for knowledge? What about paying for convenience of accessing it anytime anywhere and in a timely manner? Ultimately someone has to do the research and legwork. If they don't get paid they'll do less/none.

ac29 9y ago
Blogs are already convenient to access anywhere, anytime and in a timely manner. Its called RSS. Not sure how $5/month would improve on that.
- bArray 9y ago
  The content for that RSS feed has to come from somewhere though. RSS is cool, but it doesn't seem sustainable by itself.
bArray 9y ago
>Must it be paying for knowledge? What about paying for convenience of accessing it anytime anywhere and in a timely manner? I'm willing to put up with a considerable amount of inconvenience for open content, including advertising (as long as they are not tracking or using unknown scripts). $5/month is also a lot of money to me, that currently covers: website, IRC, VPN and a game server. Most the people here may be on a better than average wage working within tech fields, so I imagine opinions to be skewed. >Ultimately someone has to do the research and legwork. If they don't get paid they'll do less/none. I mentioned this originally and I'm not entirely aware of how to tackle this - but I think the overall cost to the user financially should be really low or nonexistent. That could mean an attention economy, mining coin on a specialized chip, or whatever other reasonable means. It should also be a choice where possible. Another idea I thought of a while back would be to have people reading the content help share the load of hosting by acting as a peer. There's some not very well supported server sockets (last time I checked) coming for browsers that could make this possible, but equally with a well designed client. Potentially the more popular the content, the less it costs to run.