TechAltar2d ago
I would really like having one single subscription that would let me jump through every major publication's paywall. I'd be willing to pay $30+ a month, but it would have to cover all. I'd love to pay for journalism, but it just doesn't make sense to subscribe to any one particular paper when the reporting is spread out over hundreds of them
Show threadPhilip Mallegol-Hansen

@Techaltar I’d love to live in a world where my browser could dole out money to websites on my behalf based on like a percentage of my time spent on each site or whatever.

I’d happily put even $100/month into a general “Support the sites I visit” bucket.

Mar 20 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadGeniusak1d ago

@philip @Techaltar there's been two attempts at that I've used.

There was scroll but it got bought by Twitter (pre musk) and they did nothing with it

There was another whose name I don't remember, they shut down to focus on the web monetization protocol.

As an aside, time alone is a poor metric, thats how you get YouTube like long drawn out content

Show threadPhilip Mallegol-Hansen1d ago

@Geniusak @Techaltar For sure. Definitely a 30 second back of the napkin suggestion, not the one I think anyone should actually implement.

Hard to know *what* that algorithm should be without incentivizing *some* sort of gamification.