Mobile users and rural satellite users like me. I was also struck by: > We didn’t need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other u

Mobile users and rural satellite users like me. I was also struck by: > We didn’t need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other users. Plain text is easier to produce, lowering the friction for people to contribute, and it’s also cheaper to store and transmit, lowering the cost of bandwidth. I still want plain text, and I think there must be others like me — we just want to read what they have to say, which is more immersive than the ten megabytes of dreck they sent me could possibly be.