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I have used adblock since forever and I am absolutely willing to pay for quality content. I do actively support content creators by buying merch or funding thei
by cardanome 2y ago
I have used adblock since forever and I am absolutely willing to pay for quality content. I do actively support content creators by buying merch or funding their Patreon/Github.
Subscriptions suck because it is another thing to keep track off and many business models rely on you forgetting about them.
I think micropayments would be great but the problem is that you need to consume the content before knowing if it was really worth paying for.
My dream would be some kind of general internet subscription network set up as a non-profit public service where I pay a fixed sum every month and where all kinds of content creators, news sites, basically anyone could be in. The network would pay their members a split of my monthly fee based on the sites I visited by default but offer me up and downvote buttons on every page. Downvotes means the site is excluded from getting payments from me, upvote means double payment. (Of course I can't downvote all of them, the sum I pay is always fixed.)
So I have only one single monthly payment, I don't have to think about it much while still having a way to encourage high-quality content.
- maccard 2y agoiOS is great for subscriptions - there’s a list in the App Store and I trust apple to allow me to cancel them if I’m no longer using them. It’s clear whether I’m signing up to monthly or weekly.