Look, they took a big risk, and now that their gamble is going bad, they need a way to make sure that the working class pays the price for their mistake. After all, they deserve special treatment and bailouts because they're risk takers.
That link is not present on the original at https://lemmy.zip/post/63792557 (to anyone using PieFed, simply clicking that link will automatically translate to the post's location on your home instance, a highly requested feature, but to avoid that do a right-click then open the link).
I was also frustrated at the lack of non-paywalled link, but your comment prompted me to try long pressing the article link on Thunder and lo and behold there's an option for alternate sources with a archive.today link.
I find those very frustrating, as they are basically advertisements for you to spend money to read further. i.e. they are a "tease".
And then not even any conversation about them. I wish the Hot sort for posts would show a lot fewer of those. I find that it helps to unsubscribe from most of the most popular communities - at least on PieFed I always have the option to regain viewing their content at the mere touch of a button, like News and Politics shows it all anyway, so I do not have to be subscribed to see it, and that way it at least declutters my Subscribed feed. Though even the more moderately-populated communities are becoming that way too.
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reddig33@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 100d
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 15 pts · 99d
Look, they took a big risk, and now that their gamble is going bad, they need a way to make sure that the working class pays the price for their mistake. After all, they deserve special treatment and bailouts because they're risk takers.
jonesy@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 100d
Paywall.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 99d
The link below that literally says "No paywall link"?
jonesy@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 99d
The only link I see is to the same paywalled article and nowhere do I see the words "No Paywall Link"?
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 99d
Oh wow, this is amazing. It seems like PieFed is adding it automatically! 🤩
The non-paywalled link is to https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f?syn-25a6b1a6=1.
That link is not present on the original at https://lemmy.zip/post/63792557 (to anyone using PieFed, simply clicking that link will automatically translate to the post's location on your home instance, a highly requested feature, but to avoid that do a right-click then open the link).
And while not entirely relevant, it appears to not always be present on PieFed as well - e.g. I do not see it on https://piefed.social/post/2037847/comment/11226397#comment_11226715.
But look at the main post page from a PieFed instance like https://piefed.social/c/technology@lemmy.zip/p/2037847/banks-seek-to-offload-risk-to-avoid-choking-on-data-centre-debt or https://piefed.zip/c/technology@lemmy.zip/p/1457315/banks-seek-to-offload-risk-to-avoid-choking-on-data-centre-debt and you will see the second link added, with a non-paywalled link.
PieFed continually impresses the hell outta me, and I love that!!!
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 99d
I was also frustrated at the lack of non-paywalled link, but your comment prompted me to try long pressing the article link on Thunder and lo and behold there's an option for alternate sources with a archive.today link.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 99d
Oh wow I wonder if other apps do similarly - that's awesome.:-)
Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 98d
Not seeing anything like that on Voyager. Would be nice though, the ammount of posts that are just links to a paywall has been reaching reddit levels.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 98d
I find those very frustrating, as they are basically advertisements for you to spend money to read further. i.e. they are a "tease".
And then not even any conversation about them. I wish the Hot sort for posts would show a lot fewer of those. I find that it helps to unsubscribe from most of the most popular communities - at least on PieFed I always have the option to regain viewing their content at the mere touch of a button, like News and Politics shows it all anyway, so I do not have to be subscribed to see it, and that way it at least declutters my Subscribed feed. Though even the more moderately-populated communities are becoming that way too.
jonesy@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 99d
Interesting! Thanks for the link! I tried viewing this in my browser as well and had the same issue, thought I was losing it 😂