• Synther@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    There should be more ways to earn profit. Websites shouldn’t rely on advertising as the only method of recurve stream, in my opinion.

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      earning profit should not be the center of society. i feel like star trek itself is a great example as to why

    • AeroLemming@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      One thing that would probably work for news sites that I haven't seen would be to give subscribers access to articles a day or so earlier than non-subscribers. No article limit or anything like that, decent freedom of information, and minimal incentive to make clickbait bullshit that nobody will subscribe to.

      • roy_mustang76@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        Well the challenge with that is avoiding making the articles stale for the wider public, given that the news typically focuses on current events. An article about, say, the negotiations to avoid the impending US government shutdown would be stale by the time it gets to the general public under such a model, so then we're effectively back to the hated paywall to get the information in a useful timeframe.