@prettyhuman @cuchaz This isn't about a price being paid. This is about finding ways web authors can monetize their content without payment portals and such things.
Making most content of the web sounds great to me. But I'm wealthy, the way things are, an ad-free web would lock most marginalized people out of the majority of web content. I know that isn't much of a concern to the generally wealthy folks on for example Mastodon.
But it's a reality the web needs to innovate for.
@prettyhuman @cuchaz (Possibly relevant, the reason this is opt-out is because the privacy technology used only works well with large submission counts. Using opt-in would reduce submissions and consequently reduce privacy of those users opting in. This is an unfortunate trade off.)