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   Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 21:49:57 JST Dave Winer ☕️

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   • Paul Knightly

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   the answer is to have the paywall handled by a third party, and you pay per article read, not give all your money to one publication. yes this has problems too, but at least you can read the one piece per year from an out of town news org that touches on something you need/want to know about.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 21:49:57 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Paul Knightly

     @davew @paulknightly I’d pay a flat monthly fee for a “Netflix for News” Highly curated, high quality journalism from various diverse sources.

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     Paul Knightly (paulknightly@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 21:49:59 JST Paul Knightly

     It looks like NBC is the latest major news network to paywall articles in recent weeks (and a substantial volume of them at that).

     I'm willing to subscribe and pay for good journalism, but I can't pay for everything. So, I'm increasingly forced to one of two options:

     1. Subscribe to selected outlets, but with the result of being siloed.
     2. Don't pay for news, but have access to an increasingly limited supply of free/poor quality journalism/articles.