#paywalls — Public Fediverse posts

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

The Verge: News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline. “The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has ‘successfully secured’ the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online.” If you’re running into lots of paywalls, check out my article on getting around them. My methods don’t involve hopping paywalls but […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/the-verge-news-publishers-take-paywall-blocker-12ft-io-offline/

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ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."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