Comment on 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Communities like lemmy can make a big difference against this as an issue by building up community rules and norms to not support paywalled/ adwalled content.
There are alternatives, they just aren’t the ones which most people post. Support alternatives and we as a community can break through this issue.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Agree. To take some burden off contributors, maybe we could automate some of that?
Most of us have seen bots used for routine post processing like:
We wouldn’t necessarily need traditional bot comments since our software is open. Content helpers could run during post creation, for example. My point is just that there’s existing logic for this kind of stuff.