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Open on mstdn.social Patrick LaForgeMore about me:
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Editor, breaking/trending news. I am not The New York Times; I just work there. Observer. Reporter. Writer. Zen Buddhist. Chess player. Cyclist. Music lover. Constant reader. Tech geek. Podcast fan. Fact-based. Pro-science. Anti-bigot. Imperfect human, just like you.
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Mastodon is the only site where a user is guaranteed to gripe about a paywalled article every time. Folks, ads are dead. Subscriptions pay for the journalism and feed our families. A trial sub is cheap. I give away a lot of free links. You can read many with an email (regi-wall is not a paywall). It is easy to get around with research. You do you. Just don’t reply with a complaint or a paywall evasion. It’s kind of rude. I may block you. Move on. Read something else. It’s a big old internet.
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I'm here to gripe about you griping about people griping. But all kidding aside, what a strange thing to complain about, a pay walled article. Can't they just not read it? What do they want, for you to screen capture the article and send it to them? Sheesh! Still, even with all the bargain hunters in the #Fediverse this beats the heck out of #TwiX, where you get pay walls, and a bleak fascist hellscape to boot. @palafo I see complaints about paywalls on X/Twitter all the time. This is not a Mastodon specific thing. Again and again, I have to say, Mastodon has better engagement than Twitter, BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, Post.news or Reddit
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@palafo @mastodonmigration And yet, so few mainstream media mentions. Hmm. #msnbc #cnn #journalism @palafo It’s almost as if real humans produce a better human experience than bots or “influencers” trying to game algorythms … 🤯
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@palafo @nytimes@mstdn.social very good paper. Thanks. Made me join @nytimes@news.twtr.plus |