alt Hacker NewsPublishing in a newspaper gets you distribution and a permanent record. After one day access was also virtually free.
Going behind a paywall is a reduced distribution over what an individual can easily access, and the content is no longer permanent but subject to whatever the publisher chooses to keep providing.
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jameshart • yesterday at 9:59 PM
It’s in The Atlantic. There’ll be a copy in the Library of Congress. You’ll be able to read it for free in any dentist’s waiting room for the next six months.
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It would never occur to a rich person that paying for a newspaper subscription could be considered friction, much less a problem.