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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  with more than $1-2 per year. ;)

  More than my own share for sure, regardless of the result of the other argument.

  why don’t you wish that everyone did the same?

  I do. But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

    Indeed. We are already struggling to get users and content, adding a paywall would probably kill the platform

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

    The idea is to get rid of “instances with open registrations”. It doesn’t mean that paywalled instances are the only way to achieve that.

    • We can have more people running their own small servers to share with their friends
    • We can have companies providing ActivityPub accounts to customers of their services (e.g, sign-up to the NYT and get access to any of the servers managed by Mastodon GmbH)
    • We can have companies operating their own AP servers for their employees
    • We can have phone/internet companies giving access to their AP servers as long as they have a contract or a positive balance on the top-up
    • We can have “pay it forward” instances: admins put up donations, but they explicitly declare how much they want per active user account. The instance only accepts new registrations when it has secured the resources.

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