Notices by Patrick LaForge (palafo@mstdn.social)

Political boycott aside... If a big name like Neil Young was only making $192K a year from Spotify, that ought to tell you what streaming has done to the music business. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/music/neil-young-spotify-joe-rogan.html?smid=threads-nytimes

moose news https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/moose-minnesota-rutt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU0.BH8Z.Kh0yAZVw4AID

@Gargron @Jonathanglick Hi guys, the head of our audience team is @Annadubenko and @jakegrovum is her deputy for external platforms. I know they are observing all the so-called Twitter "alternatives" -- and I realize that is not quite the way to think of Mastodon, which is its own thing. There are also resource implications for anything we do. [Personally, I've encountered a lot of resistance here to our subscription business model.]

Mastodon is the only site where a user is guaranteed to gripe about a paywalled article every time. Folks, ads are dead. Subscriptions pay for the journalism and feed our families. A trial sub is cheap. I give away a lot of free links. You can read many with an email (regi-wall is not a paywall). It is easy to get around with research. You do you. Just don’t reply with a complaint or a paywall evasion. It’s kind of rude. I may block you. Move on. Read something else. It’s a big old internet.

That's not me in those online dental ads, Tom Hanks says: It's an AI. https://nyti.ms/45fgwRh

Musk has reactivated Trump's Twitter account, but he hasn't tweeted yet. Last tweet is from January 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/technology/trump-twitter-musk.html?

@feditips I don't see the harm. I also verify myself through my own blog. If people want assurance that I am the verified @palafo pre-Elon from Twitter, that's really all that list is offering. Not everyone has a blog or a site these days. If my employer figures out a way to verify me, I'll switch to that.