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> You can pay publishers directly already by buying subscriptions But that's not how most of us access news. We look at sources like Twitter, Hacker News, Face
by gwbas1c 5y ago
> You can pay publishers directly already by buying subscriptions
But that's not how most of us access news. We look at sources like Twitter, Hacker News, Facebook, Google News for links to articles.
Subscribing to a single website doesn't work in this model.
- mikojan 5y agoWhy wouldn't it work? You simply subscribe to a publisher you are valuing.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoHow many different publishers did I visit once or twice this week? Probably a lot, but I’m not sure which, or how much all of them would cost. Subscription-only articles suffer from the opposite of the network effect. If I pick 1/n publishers to subscribe to, and you pick 1/n, the odds I can read something you tried to share are only 1/n^2. It might help if there were wire services for major topics I care about.
- chaorace 5y agoIt's quite the feat to convince someone to pay for something they already get for free, particularly in the digital space... Aha! The answer has been right under our noses the entire time: we need to sell online media subscriptions as NFTs!
- gwbas1c 5y agoIf I subscribed to every publisher I valued, I'd pay more than I pay for Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and Disney+ combined! I think if the music industry can come out with a 1-subscription-fits-most model, I'm sure the journalism industry can figure out how to evenly distribute a modest $5-15 subscription fee.
- tootie 5y agoWho is "we"? I look at aggregators but I also subscribe at the source for publications I value.
- rch 5y agoIt's difficult to find valuable sources though. I'm currently spending over $100 a month on subscriptions, and and I still feel like my sources are biased and myopic.