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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Does such a system exist, and how do you implement it without a third party login system?

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I think you can charge per article on substack. Not entirely sure though.

Some newspaper charge X$ for Y articles, I think the NYTimes do it or used to. It’s usually a horrible deal compared to monthly subscription, but I think that’s the point.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

I mentioned this in another comment, but Chrome browser is currently working on it's own implementation of this. It has a high chance of becoming the new standard with Chrome's marketshare, unless there's strong pushback against it (if Google made it a privacy nightmare or something like that).

Brave browser has a version of this already, powered by crypto. Websites need to opt into it before they can earn money from users though, and it's usually just used to replace revenue from brave blocking the websites ads.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not successfully. Been talked about for decades though. Seems like an apt real world non silk-road use for crypto currency. No login required, just a quick wallet transfer for a few cents and access is gained. Quick and cheap enough that's its not quite worth it to muck around with 12 foot ladders etc.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Companies were doing that with NFTs (which is what you’re describing) but now nobody want to touch an NFT so those companies definitely went bust.

The best case will be companies who can hide the crypto behind the product, like “give us 5$ and we’ll give you 5 read-a-tokens which is totally not crypto btw”. Or wait a couple of years for crypto to come back in vogue.