>Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd. Is it? If we put aside the common notion that "everything on the internet is and should be fre

>Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd. Is it? If we put aside the common notion that "everything on the internet is and should be free-as-in-beer and fuck you if you disagree", is it really that absurd? Communities more often than not prefer setting up some kind of filtering to weed out certain people, and a paywall is one of those filters.