#paywalls — Public Fediverse posts

@telegraph.co.uk you're so close
#deadinternet #msm #legacymedia #paywalls #news
#journalists #journalism #westernmedia #enshittification

#Wikipedia is considering #blacklisting #Archivetoday after the archive site was used to direct a #DDoSattack against a blogger who tried to uncover the mysterious founder's identity. Wikipedia editors are debating removing all links and adding it to the #spam blacklist, which could affect over 695,000 links across 400,000 Wikipedia pages. The archive site is commonly used to #bypass news #paywalls and preserve web content. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/?eicker.media #media #socialmedia

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ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."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.

#ScholComm