The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

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    5 months ago

    Wait their articles are paywalled. Are they only going to federate the clickbait teaser intros?

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      5 months ago

      Wait their articles are paywalled.

      Journalists have to pay for food and rent too. What is the alternative? ads?

      The money has to come from somewhere.

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        5 months ago

        Paywalls just don’t mix that well with federation. The teasers are basically ads, and why would fediverse volunteers want to propagate some company’s ads? The non-federated model they are using now seems fine.