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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Because like it or not, actually paying for stuff is the only way to save journalism and by extension our democracies.
The alternative is to link shitty clickbait / AI spam. At least this way:
Please don't ban paywalls.
Paying for things does not prevent enshitification.
But not paying for it almost guarantees it.
I disagree. The alternative to news is no news. If you don't have anything interesting to share, just don't post it.
If you want to share news articles, just use a link to the internet archive, if available, or copy-paste the text if it's behind a paywall.
Information should be open to all on a platform like Lemmy imo. If you're willing to pay for news, you won't need this platform for that.
Please ban paywalls.