From NYT in Old Media to Stratechery in New Media, an iron subscription curtain has descended across the web.
At the heart of it, the Berlin Paywall. People on the one side desperate to get through, over, under...
Feels odd to be building my first paywalled property.
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Never thought I’d get here. I was quite evangelical about keeping at least my stuff free and open. Ribbonfarm will remain open, but it increasingly feels like an embassy on the wrong side of the Iron Subscription Curtain. Everything else I’m doing is either closed, paid, or both.
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I stubbornly refuse to pay. All the good stuff makes it accross eventually (sometimes by a promotion effort by the author itself). Feels at best like paying for early access (and being a guinea pig) and at worse like paying for anabundance of premium mediocre extras.
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