Couple of ideas...
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Couple of ideas...
#Paywall functions behind social media links. Aggravating #clickbait
A #mastodon feature that can sense the popup and report it in the UI first -- label the embed expressing the existence of the paywall in the content?
And another thing.
An #ActivityPub #socialmedia service that implements #plugin ecology. Tap the culture of independent developers providing user select / enhanced / custom feature / functions.
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Armando :rick:replied to David Gerhart on last edited by
@gearhead in order to reliably detect the paywall a client would need to know if the user has the required subscription to view the article regardless of whether they're logged in on the current browser (or the web view in a native app). Additionally it would need to be aware of the details of every paywall implementation out there: client-side javascript hiding content? Server returning a default page asking you to log in and if so, what does that page say? Something else? It doesn't really work.
Regarding your other point: yes, a plug-in architecture is often a good fit for this type of applications (social media, content management, publishing). I don't know if any fediverse apps are designed that way except for WordPress, if we want to count it as a fediverse app. -
@[email protected] @[email protected] NodeBB has supported plugins for many years, and we're a new entrant to the ActivityPub space!
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"NodeBB has supported plugins for many years, and we're a new entrant to the ActivityPub space!"
Did not know this. Awesome.
Thanks for the news.
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I've used Buddy Boss in the past on wordpress sites for community.
Any chance y'all are related?
I only had a quick peek at the NodeBB.org landing page...
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David Gerhartreplied to Armando :rick: on last edited by
So yeah, kudos to someone who solves this -- maybe a catalog of the most often cited pay walled sites?
AI?
"no" only means there's a sweet spot for a sharp dev to shine.
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Armando :rick:replied to David Gerhart on last edited by
@gearhead a list of paywalled sites would just tell you "this article may be paywalled if it's not a free article and you don't have a subscription". Training ML models to figure out if a link points to a paywall and then check your subscriptions and doing this for all the links on your feed doesn't seem worthwhile. It's just not a good tradeoff of solution complexity, resource consumption, performance, and benefits.