Since people can’t seem to post non-paywalled things here: https://archive.ph/SxhOj
Not technically a paywall FYI; just gated behind free registration. Still of course annoying.
Oh, gee. We have to enter an email and give them data points. Cool.
Not in this case
https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/
? I’m saying that’s not what a paywall is by definition, not defending it as a practice. It’s arguably even dumber since at least a paywall means you’re directly financially supporting an outlet. This is just scuzzy for no real reason.
Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.
I had hoped Lemmy could avoid this effect. We seem to be a bit resistant but not immune unfortunately. That’s probably the best I’m going to get though, so I can live with it lol
you pay in ways other than money…
i.e. forced registration is still paywalled… (and there’s usually an article limit or some such after that)This mental gymnastics definition of a paywall is not widely accepted. I was pointing out a small mistake. Is my website paywalled because you need to spend electricity to access it? A paywall is one where a monetary transaction is involved to view the content; that’s just what the word means.
wow, i didn’t know words became immutable as soon as they’re added to wikipedia….
or that monetary compensation is the only way to pay someone….
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fantabulousJust because you dislike two things, you don’t have to lump them under the same definition. Language could evolve to consider registration-required sites to have a paywall, but that would be stupid and counter to similar usages of “pay”. People seem really eager to stretch negative definitions to include other things they dislike, but it’s not the word that makes something bad, it’s the thing itself. Two things can be different/distinct concepts and also be equally bad.
just because you can’t understand things doesn’t mean you have to pretend i’m lumping things because i dislike them….
“pay” has NEVER been limited to currency… you’re just myopically capitalist….
