Mastodawn

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.

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JP Mens 2d 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?

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Tim Chase

@jpmens @partim

Similarly, I've occasionally shared articles that turned out to be "paywalled" (or behind a "you get N articles for free") but I use an ad-blocker that made the entire article accessible without me noticing what hoi polloi would experience.

Sometimes I go back and delete or annotate the post; other times I just shrug and move on.