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Posted by speckx 9 hours ago

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites(blog.zgp.org)
128 points | 304 commentspage 5
renewiltord 8 hours ago|
You're going to put all the work into finding the news and doing the leg work. I'm going to make a site called NewsTheft.info that just says "YourNewsSite.com is reporting that <your content rewritten by an LLM>" and it's going to be free and people are going to use my thing. Then I'm going to shut it down when you all go bust. I am a rapacious eater of worlds. You can't stop me and the people love me because, since it's free, I can give them a better experience than you.

Information wants to be free.

theendisney 8 hours ago|
And with your added layer of review the product would be superior.

I can think of many marketing formulas that would definitely work but since the game is not legwork but propaganda the industry should just die.

m132 6 hours ago||
I used to find this and the whole idea of "Web3" ridiculous, but with the recent saturation of low-quality slop and disinformation, perhaps it's time to reconsider.

I enjoy reading thorough publications written by actual humans who have something to say. Part of why I'm here. And I'd take micropayments over subscriptions anytime.

There's just one catch nobody seems to be eager to talk about. While I'm willing to pay that 1¢, if it's 1¢ + any identifying information, I'm out.

luqtas 3 hours ago||
seriously, this bullshit and ISP raising prices of what's basically UBER cheap: transporting data to others via internet

information should be free and not locked under paywalls; in no time if this pill is swallowed you will have the same level of shallow articles but this time, all paid

micromacrofoot 8 hours ago||
who the hell wants to think about micropayments every time they read an article? microtransactions just suck outright, they create a ton of overhead for everyone involved — both use and implementation

not to mention that they're fundamentally incompatible with the american credit card cabal, which forces you into buying some goofy monopoly money that you're likely to overspend on regularly

linsomniac 8 hours ago|
I'd rather think about micropayments than think about subscriptions.
micromacrofoot 7 hours ago||
micropayments are just subscriptions with extra steps

in the US there's no easy way to implement them without essentially buying a bulk of nonsense tokens, because the american banking system is complete garbage and still doesn't have a good peer-to-peer payment system without credit card processing fees that make microtransactions too expensive

claytongulick 8 hours ago||
> who want to bury us in deepfakes, extreme right wing bullshit

It's a shame with articles like this that are otherwise insightful, they just lose me with sentences like that.

Like, if you don't have enough insight to recognize that bullshit is a general political issue, and has been forever, how can I rely on any other analysis you make?

ummonk 8 hours ago|
Which tech billionaires are trying to bury us in extreme left wing bullshit?
claytongulick 7 hours ago||
If you're not able to objectively observe bias in media, it simply means that one side's bullshit has worked on you.
artzev_ 4 hours ago||
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cranberryturkey 7 hours ago|
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