Yes. Also, I am absolutely terrible at asking people to support us, but it would really help. We took ads off the site a few years ago. We have no paywall. Not even a registration wall. We really depend on people just wanting to help us. www.techdirt.com/support/ - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 19 days ago

Yes. Also, I am absolutely terrible at asking people to support us, but it would really help. We took ads off the site a few years ago. We have no paywall. Not even a registration wall. We really depend on people just wanting to help us.

https://www.techdirt.com/support/

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talltreesgrove.bsky.social•19 days ago

Have you considered a “tip jar”? Somewhere a reader could just give money in one time payment on occasion after seeing good work on a site. I find it a good way to support a couple other places I follow.

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, that's one of the things we have:

https://rtb.techdirt.com/products/friend-of-techdirt/

cometsncats.bsky.social•19 days ago

Is it financially feasible for you to sell merch?

hardasshelen.bsky.social•19 days ago

I see that u guys take Bitcoin. Are u friendly w the bitcoin bros? Does the publication focus on all things tech or?

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

You can look at our coverage and see what we talk about. We just try to make it easy for people to support us however they feel most comfortable.

oggie.bsky.social•19 days ago

Hey, was just looking through for ways to support and similar, and saw that the CIA game is no longer available? It's reasonably close to the top in ways to support so might want to pull it.

But I shall be looking into other options, was just looking through the list!

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah, we need to update that list... but finding the time...

oggie.bsky.social•19 days ago

Honestly, this kind of articulates the difference between what you are doing, and 'running a business'

Running a business, the first and only goal is to make money. What you are doing is actually something else, and you'd like to make money (or at least keep the lights on), but...different goals.

oggie.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also finding the time reminds me a hair of that naked gun scene where he's just calmly telling the crowd there's nothing to see and everything's fine.

itzspelledgeoff.bsky.social•19 days ago

I support Techdirt and so should you. Journalism that’s not owned by the oligarchs is crucial to our very broken society. You won’t get a tote bag or Kai Ryssdal on your answering machine, but you will support the work of independent journalists; they’re the people you can trust.

ladyhawk.bsky.social•18 days ago

Appreciate your work very much and just signed up to support, but was required to set a password and save cc information for future purchases..

mmasnick.bsky.social•18 days ago

Hmm. We allow all forms of payments, including using PayPal, or one-time payment, so I'm pretty sure it shouldn't ask for saving cc numbers if you don't want to do recurring payments.

ladyhawk.bsky.social•17 days ago

Perhaps the problem is between the chair and keyboard…thanks again for your amazing work.

trippnasty.bsky.social•19 days ago

I've always enjoyed what I've read there, thank you!

librarianjenne.bsky.social•19 days ago

This is how I find out there was a CIA card game and it's made of unobtanium! (I have no excuse... I must have just missed it.)

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah, totally sold out, but still possible to support our new card game:

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lbczkrpnls2e

librarianjenne.bsky.social•19 days ago

LOL, I've already backed it! :-)

librarianjenne.bsky.social•19 days ago

Not going to miss out again!

shillelagh.bsky.social•18 days ago

Sites like yours will be invaluable in the days to come. Just signed up for a year -- thanks for the nudge!

paulalvarez.bsky.social•18 days ago

Honestly had no idea Tech Dirt removed ads. Have always loved the site and content. Glad to support!

mmasnick.bsky.social•18 days ago

Thanks. Yeah, it became too much of a pain, mainly because Google owns too much of the ad space and kept doing sketchy things to us. https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/27/techdirt-is-now-entirely-without-any-google-ads-tracking-code/

danmorrill.bsky.social•19 days ago

can you make a t-shirt with just your logo? The shop does not carry those, but I would totally buy one. Don't care about home cooking for the first emojiment . I know I still owe you an article or two as well. Sorry
Huge promotion though - so I have that distracting me as an excuse.

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

We have one! https://techdirt.threadless.com/designs/big-techdirt-logo

danmorrill.bsky.social•19 days ago

Holy Cow! I got a Techdirt T-Shirt! WHOOOOOOOP! Thanks @mmasnick.bsky.social

dharhix.com•18 days ago

Is there a preferred payment option, one with the most bang for our buck? Like I imagine donations are the "best," but even that has overhead. Patreon might be better over PayPal. I don't keep track of that as I'm on the giver side of the fence.

mmasnick.bsky.social•18 days ago

The "Insider shop" and "Friend of Techdirt" options end up with the most money going actually to us rather than a payment processor.

https://rtb.techdirt.com/

https://rtb.techdirt.com/products/friend-of-techdirt/

Or if you want to do something recurring: https://rtb.techdirt.com/products/behind-the-curtain/

tam438.bsky.social•19 days ago

I cancelled my WaPo subscription last year, guess why... so I'm more than happy to support you and others!

mmasnick.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thank you!

dyony-sus.bsky.social•18 days ago

probably doesn't matter to a lot of people but I really appreciate the full text being in the RSS feed. Signing up for the Patreon and getting a shirt

mmasnick.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yup. We're all about full text RSS, and have been since basically the beginning of RSS. We want to be read. We don't want to make people jump through hoops.

dyony-sus.bsky.social•18 days ago

It really helps accessibility tools too

manyakitty.bsky.social•19 days ago

Dropping in here to agree and also to recommend @wonkettemedia.bsky.social

kolczyn.ski•19 days ago

Live Mas(nick)!

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