The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 77 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Wait their articles are paywalled. Are they only going to federate the clickbait teaser intros?

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Wait their articles are paywalled.

Journalists have to pay for food and rent too. What is the alternative? ads?

The money has to come from somewhere.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't read Solrize's comment as saying "There shouldn't be paywalls," just asking the very legitimate question as to how they will interact with federation.

Interestingly, 404 just solved something kinda related: they developed a way for subscribers to get a custom RSS feed address, so they can access paywalled articles directly in their RSS reader. TMK, they are the first publication to do this. I imagine they would do something similar for federation. (I believe that if any of the custom RSS feeds show huge traffic numbers, 404 shuts it down, but I'm not sure)

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

I don't think that's new, you just need to throw in a personal subscription key in the URL

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