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Jeff Jarvis

Internet companies attack the open web on multiple fronts: FB/IG, Twitter, now TikTok test paywalls. FB/IG, now Twitter deprecate links, the basis of the web. Thank goodness for Mastodon.

4 Oct 2023 at 11:13 | Open on mastodon.social
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Jeff

@jeffjarvis

Can I get an Amen from the congregation?

4 Oct 2023 at 11:17 | Open on honeytree.social
Paul Chambers

@jeff @jeffjarvis

...Amen, but it's worth noting, Mastodon is exploring adding paywalls options of sorts, also.

Roadmap item "MAS-24 Paid sign-ups, pay per use storage." Gargron added it to the 'todo' in GitHub, Mastodon GitHub issue #11324. He did change subscriptions to paid registrations. Still, it looks like exploration, on the Roadmap.

I couldn't find anything at GitHub about paid storage, though, or how any of this will work.

πŸ”— Mastodon Roadmap joinmastodon.org/roadmap
4 Oct 2023 at 11:29 | Open on oldfriends.live
Jeff

@paul @jeffjarvis

I am seriously considering pointing some devs at that issue.

4 Oct 2023 at 12:12 | Open on honeytree.social
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitten)

@paul @jeff @jeffjarvis That's something different though? Paid registrations are basically a way for instance admins to finance servers. Paywall is the opposite, readers having to pay to view what has been posted on an instance, no?

4 Oct 2023 at 12:23 | Open on chaos.social
Baruch Katz

@paul @jeff @jeffjarvis A paid account is not a paywall because everyone can still see all the content for free.

4 Oct 2023 at 13:05 | Open on babka.social
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sef

@jeffjarvis It’s almost feasible that fedi saves enough raw material to feed the next wave of enclosures

4 Oct 2023 at 11:18 | Open on social.coop
Tom Schaffer

@jeffjarvis Paywalls are good. Sometimes they really succeed in monetizing a good thing. But mostly they kill off stuff that basically in the long run needs to die anyway.

4 Oct 2023 at 11:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Sean Woods

@jeffjarvis I'm finding that "platforms" and "search engines" all seem to go through the process of enshitification.

I'm back to having to maintain bookmarks just to find the manual pages I access regularly. If I look for "tcl string command" I have to wade through pages and pages of stackoverflow threads that eventually have a post (usually from me) posting the link to the manual page with the real answer.

Nobody finds my etsy site from the ads I pay for. 99% of my sales are word of mouth.

4 Oct 2023 at 12:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Sean Woods

@jeffjarvis I feel like we need a new circle on the old "you are here" dystopia chart which includes "The Machine Stops"

4 Oct 2023 at 13:00 | Open on mastodon.social
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