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by 52-6F-62 2508 days ago
Sounds like Apple News?
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Thats not federated though. It's the opposite. That's a centralized middleman.
Yep. And if the price of two cups of coffee a month is too much of a burden on one's wallet, there's always Blendle for 40ยข an article.
I go the other direction. I am way too fast a reader and read too widely to handle per-article microtransactions well. I do have a subscription to a couple of my top magazines and news sources, but end up reading up to the free allotment on many, many more every month. I'd happily pay $30-50/mo for unlimited access to many sources, but it'd have to have 10+ of my favorites on board to make it worthwhile. I read 20-50 serious articles a day, across free and paywalled and subscription content. I'm unwilling to pay $10-25/mo for each source individually. But if the average could get down around $5/mo for each major source (that I'll read 15-50 articles/mo from, given the access), and leftover change to the ones I read only occasionally, I'd be delighted. Basically, yeah, I want Spotify for journalism, even if it's a good bit more expensive.
How have I not heard of Blendle? Thanks for the reference!