Plus all of those subscription transactions have individual costs. 3% just to the credit card companies alone. We either need to actually make low-cost microtransactions an actual thing - no Bitcoin is not that thing - or we need to publicly subsidize artists for the sake of art.
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Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months agoAh, now this is an interesting question. I can certainly see an argument that ads are necessary to support “free” content, although personally in many cases I prefer to pay a subscription to support content rather than being subjected to ads.
On the other hand, not everyone can afford a subscription, so offering a both ad-supported and paid-for options is ideal, imo. Well, at least as ideal as it gets in a “grind your hustle or you’ll starve” economy.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 months ago
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
yall have no cheap/free bank transfers? is that some american problem i’m too european to understand?
Steve@communick.news 4 months ago
Yes, exactly.
orclev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, having a free ad supported option and a paid ad-free option is best, although I would say only if the ad supported option isn’t using individually targeted ads. You should be able to see the content without ads without needing to login or provide personal data.