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thielman.bsky.social • 95 days ago

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cubeytheawesome.bsky.social•95 days ago

Any news site that requires a subscription deserves to shut down

xenusparadox.bsky.social•95 days ago

https://Archive.ph has become my best friend lately

nyebodnye.bsky.social•95 days ago

"We've detected that you are using an ad-blocker. Please disable it to view content"
*Close window and mutter obscenities*

toplesstopics.bsky.social•95 days ago

"democracy dies in darkness. To read the rest of this article, insert your payment information here..."

the-rook.bsky.social•95 days ago

The worst part is half of these blogs just ctrl+c ctrl+v from each other and change a few words around. The number of medium articles/personal website blogs on tech/programming I've read that are virtually identical is incredible.

Monetizing other people's work is unhinged.

bobjw.bsky.social•95 days ago

That or you can read the first couple of lines and get paywalled for the rest of the article gfy

omniotics.bsky.social•94 days ago

I wonder if we can come up with a better cost model:

Quality unbiased information is difficult to create
Sponsoring the creation of information creates bias
Information, once created, is low cost to distribute
Profiting on information distribution is counter-productive

But creators need income...