I pay for news both across mainstream media and on sites like ghost. I subscribe to two dozen magazines and nearly twice as many newsletters. With few exceptions (<cough> WaPo) I am happy to pay for content

That said, @GiftArticles is one of my favorite Mastodon accounts, and I'm surprised by how few followers it has

I follow it not for the free content, but rather because it serves as a curated newsfeed for what other people find worth sharing

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