How to post a non-paywall link

[usonian]

22. Replying to my own post.

The point is that as a creator, YOU should be paid directly by readers, i.e. via some micro-payment.

That point seems to have been missed.

How and why this doesn't work is a tech and social engineering issue beyond the scope here.

Pay YOU and not some (Bezos, Musk, Whoever owns NYT, Murdoch) whose only goal is to make as much money as possible and/or control the conversation for subscription money or ad payments (ads are poison by the way)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/advertising-poison-hooked

AND people pay you for QUALITY, not VIRALITY/QUANTITY. There's your dumbing down and poison.

If it's garbage, then the yokels aren't going to pay a micronickel for it. Garbage demands to be free.

Quality allows it, PROVIDING your "editor" or "owner" wouldn't take the lion's share, AND control your content.

Nothing is free. When you see ads You are the Product. But people don't mind spending (micro-nickels) for quality.
IF THEY HAVE A CHANCE.

Damned if I am going to open up 20 different accounts, each one more likely to spill my credit card info than the other.

If you are a quality creator, you deserve to be paid. But the gatekeepers want that damn tap in your veins, all 20, 30, 100 taps.

The old business models survive by brute force and by subverting real positive and liberating change.

Frickin artists have to die before their works are worth anything.

I'd send you a micro-nickel right now but there's NO DAMN WAY that's practical.

Peace,
and have a great day