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It is and I could. I’d be fine doing it, but why not just read them when they come up in !fediverse@lemmy.world? I’ve been trying not to create communities that are going to be duplicates or spam, or split the user base between one way of reading articles and another way of reading articles. Do you want it as a DM, maybe?
I think an even better way would be software that can follow the original Wordpress feed, if they have one, but Lemmy can’t do that right now.
12·6 days agoRead the sidebar. Block the paywall bot if you don’t want paywalled content.
Not a problem at all. I think a better way to do that will be to let moderators of existing communities add the bot to their existing communities. Someone asked about doing that, and it’s easy to set up the bot to make it possible, so I think I’ll just do that instead. I don’t need to create a duplicate community for anything that’s already got one.
I’m fine with the existing structure, with one community per periodical. I tried !coding_blogs@rss.ponder.cat and !science_streams@rss.ponder.cat and it looks like some people are into that type of structure, but I’m thinking mostly in terms of one-periodical communities or moderators from off-instance communities being able to add things.
Are there any that you would cherry-pick that you think you would personally use? I’d be perfectly willing to add them, if so.
I don’t think that the Austin or Texas communities are useful as communities. Do you mind if I delete them?
Are there other feeds from your OPML that you would really like to have in Lemmy?
I think it’s a good idea. I want to make it possible for people to administer their own feeds, without creating spam, and I think having moderators able to add feeds to communities they moderate would be a good stepping stone.
How about adding a feature to let people write:
@bot@rss.ponder.cat add https://some/feed !some_community@instance @bot.rss.ponder.cat remove https://some/feed !some_community@instancein DMs or comments, and control their subscriptions directly? I’m still not sure about letting them do that to create communities on rss.ponder.cat, but for communities they already moderate, it sounds like a good thing.
He’s a strong advocate of abortion rights for his mistresses, his associates’ mistresses, anyone in his family, and wealthy white people.
Everyone else, he couldn’t care less about. They’re a bunch of spilled rice in someone else’s kitchen. Unimportant, and out of mind.
Removed along with a short ban. Don’t post article text. You can block the paywall@rss.ponder.cat bot if you don’t want to see paywalled articles.
I’ve banned you now, so you don’t need to worry about it.
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00B2
Copy and paste, and it’ll always work.
Thank you for your calm and constructive criticism. I’ve split the bot into free@rss.ponder.cat and paywall@rss.ponder.cat, and I recommend that you block one or both of them.
Than there is problem with I don’t trust media will write the truth anyway, so giving them few bucks will probably not change that. But it is important for us to know what other people know.
Are there any media sources that I’m hosting feeds for which you feel that way about? I think the problem is much worse in a lot of free content, and I’ve been trying to bring in honest and high-quality sources when I’m adding news sources.
While this is outside of our current discussion, they need to find better model.
If it is a daily newspaper, maybe paywal new articles and release after sone reasonable time (like a week, or month… or a year).
I don’t understand, can you explain more?
Edit: I understand now. That’s outside the scope of my abilities… I would like to be able to offer a paid subscription with a deal that provides access to a wide variety of paywalled content, like a site license at a university, but I think that’s also outside the scope of my abilities. You’re right that they need a better model.
I like your idea of separating feeds, to keep paywalled content out of my feed.
It seems like a good compromise. I certainly understand that if someone’s decided not to read paywalled content, putting a lot of it into their Lemmy feed in a way that’s difficult to disable isn’t a good thing to do. I think separating the paywalled content into a separate user so it’s easy to block is probably a good pragmatic solution.
Most of the most popular RSS communities are free. I like some of them that are paywalled and a little way down the list, like !thenewyorker@rss.ponder.cat and !theatlantic@rss.ponder.cat, but most of the top ones are free. One of the really nice things about one community per source is that you know which ones to subscribe to and which ones you’d have to pay for that you can block.
If you don’t know the New York Times has a paywall, and you click on a link to them, that’s a learning experience for you at this point. I think some of the griping about paywalls is just entitled. It’s okay if people made content for you and they want to get paid. At the same time, I’m not trying to spam people who don’t want paywall content. If I can make a quality-of-life improvement for people who don’t want to get burned by paywalls on random links from places they’ve never heard of, then fine.
I also want to give shout-outs to some feeds that are way, way down and trying to charge money for very high quality stuff:
I posted in !fediverse@lemmy.world to offer one solution for paywall content annoying people:
I posted in !fediverse@lemmy.world to offer one solution for paywall content annoying people:
High value art has been a vehicle for tax evasion and money laundering for quite some time.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering-sanctions-senate/index.html
I posted in !fediverse@lemmy.world to offer one solution for paywall content annoying people:
I posted in !fediverse@lemmy.world to offer one solution for paywall content annoying people:
Changing what we’re doing to be less catastrophic isn’t what we’re into. We like assigning some scientists to make some miraculous solution, so we can keep doing the catastrophe, and then doubling down on how much of it we’re doing if they succeed.
It costs money to put these articles together.
If you don’t want to pay for them, that’s fine. Block the bot.
If you want to see them when they come out, and you’re okay with navigating the paywall to evaluate whether you want to subscribe to the service, the name of the bot serves as a warning so you know what you’re getting into.
If you want to subscribe to one of the paywalled sources, and then subscribe to the community so you can see all its content and talk to people about it, you know what to do.