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Patrick LaForge

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 donโ€™t reply with a complaint or a paywall evasion. Itโ€™s kind of rude. I may block you. Move on. Read something else. Itโ€™s a big old internet.

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@palafo
Click here to find out the problem, only ยฃ4.

Spinner

@palafo

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.

Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@palafo I see complaints about paywalls on X/Twitter all the time. This is not a Mastodon specific thing.

Patrick LaForge

Again and again, I have to say, Mastodon has better engagement than Twitter, BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, Post.news or Reddit

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Megan Marie Hart

@palafo Itโ€™s almost as if real humans produce a better human experience than bots or โ€œinfluencersโ€ trying to game algorythms โ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฏ

Catweazle

@palafo, naturally, it's not mainstream with mainstream people

Patrick LaForge

Never forget. Youโ€™re the internet.

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