#paywalls — Public Fediverse posts
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340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive
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I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."
PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.
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""you only deserve #food and #shelter if you contribute to #society" says #people living in #countries where nobody's #labor actually feeds or benefits their #neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the #companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial #paywalls
You're not #nomads relying on each other to #hunt and #gather anymore, you're talking about #stocking shelves for fucking wal #marts
And even the oldest #societies on #earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway"
https://www.tumblr.com/that-punk-adam/720584745623437312?source=share