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Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls, Sign in or ... (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Part of the problem is credit card fees eat up a lot when they deal with small values (less than a dollar) so they are trying to avoid that. But a "big pot" subscription that gets distributed as you use it would alleviate that.