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The paywall on Fortune that is telling me to pay $1 monthly to see the article is so, so sweetly ironic
by bennettnate5 3y ago
The paywall on Fortune that is telling me to pay $1 monthly to see the article is so, so sweetly ironic
- gdulli 3y agoI don't think it's ironic. Paying for access to content at least makes logical sense, paying for the privilege to provide content to a platform is ridiculous.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoServers cost money. Bandwidth costs money. And pre-X Twitter was bleeding money. In the old days the grey beards called this computing model time sharing. 30 years ago people gladly paid AOL and CompuServe for their chat tools. How is this any different?
- gdulli 3y ago> And pre-X Twitter was bleeding money. It had been profitable, shortly before covid. They could have had layoffs and been there again if not for the baggage that came with the acquisition. The debt, the exodus of advertisers, the general worsening.
- danso 3y agoThe $1 subscription would be for the privilege to do write-operations, e.g. tweeting and liking. Paying to consume content has been a thing for long before the internet