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    • TheTechnician27English
      -7•3 months ago

      Not technically a paywall FYI; just gated behind free registration. Still of course annoying.

      • OrbituaryEnglish
        13•3 months ago

        Oh, gee. We have to enter an email and give them data points. Cool.

        • TheTechnician27English
          8•3 months ago

          ? I’m saying that’s not what a paywall is by definition, not defending it as a practice. It’s arguably even dumber since at least a paywall means you’re directly financially supporting an outlet. This is just scuzzy for no real reason.

          • @[email protected]
            7•3 months ago

            Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.

            • @FeathercrownEnglish
              2•3 months ago

              I had hoped Lemmy could avoid this effect. We seem to be a bit resistant but not immune unfortunately. That’s probably the best I’m going to get though, so I can live with it lol

        • TheTechnician27English
          4•3 months ago

          This mental gymnastics definition of a paywall is not widely accepted. I was pointing out a small mistake. Is my website paywalled because you need to spend electricity to access it? A paywall is one where a monetary transaction is involved to view the content; that’s just what the word means.

            • @FeathercrownEnglish
              0•3 months ago

              Just because you dislike two things, you don’t have to lump them under the same definition. Language could evolve to consider registration-required sites to have a paywall, but that would be stupid and counter to similar usages of “pay”. People seem really eager to stretch negative definitions to include other things they dislike, but it’s not the word that makes something bad, it’s the thing itself. Two things can be different/distinct concepts and also be equally bad.

                • @FeathercrownEnglish
                  -2•3 months ago

                  And you jump to ad hominem as soon as you’re challenged. You should improve your conversation skills or you will flounder around and never correct inaccuracies in your beliefs. If you believe you do not have inaccuracies in your beliefs despite never changing them, you are wrong. Good luck.