Martin Hoffmann3d ago

Dear everyone! It would be wonderful if you could mark links to paywalled articles as such – something simple like “($)” is more than good enough. Maybe we can make this part of the quiet Mastodon etiquette?

It is super frustrating to get a link to an article that sounds interesting, go there, click away the cookie banner,* then click away the newsletter popup, finally start reading and then the text fades out.

* I am aware there are tools for that.

Show threadJP Mens2d ago
@partim I strongly approve, but might it not be that people who link to such articles are either not aware of forget that they're paying for them and hence don't pay attention to the fact it's paywalled?
Show threadMartin Hoffmann
@jpmens That is certainly part of it. But it being a thing might still help – if you see it everywhere, you are more likely to remember.
Apr 11 at 7:37amWeb
Show threadMans R2d ago
@partim @jpmens It's not always obvious which articles are paywalled when you are signed in with a subscription.