• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why would anyone pay for viewing a website?

    Or to put it another way,

    Why would anyone pay for using a service that costs money to provide?

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      4 months ago

      We were spoiled when the web started, but now that ad revenue has dried up, someone has to pay for hosting and content creators to eat.

      I’m not a fan of giving every website $5 a month, there has to be a better way.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Advertisers did it to themselves.

        Pop ups, pop unders, loud autoplay, focus stealing, taking up ungodly amounts of screen real estate, etc, etc.

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        I think the Brits have it right with BBC. It’s not perfect but everyone pays a tiny bit and it funds news and dedicated programming

        What we really need is to reinstate the Fairness Doctorine and stare straight at fox

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          That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. edit: with corporate sponsors and viewer funding pledge drives.

          Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.

          Gift link to SF Chronicle article
          archived version

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            4 months ago

            This is where we got MSG round brown Ross and his happy little mountains after he stoped yelling, never stopped being an American veteran

            How you gonna attack happy little mountain brushes?

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              Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.

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                4 months ago

                Seems like an issue one might fix as a campaign bullet point, no?

                Vote for me and we’ll keep Bob and Fred and educational stuff free to every tv. Crom knows the only way I became a hitchhiker instead of a missionary was shows on PBS like Red Dwarf, no network is gonna air that at 0300