#payingforjournalism
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #payingforjournalism from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-30 00:48 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-30 00:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~40 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
@deshipu Universal basic income as a backstop for individual contributors could also be a part of the solution, but that doesn't address the needs (and capabilities) of institutional media organisations, journalistic or otherwise. See the g
@PixelJones What I'd really like to do is to get away from the per-item / per-use payment model, and instead think of the infostream as a distribution utility for which access rather than use is the principle consideration, and in which pay
@nomdeb Tipping, effectively busking, doesn't seem to work. The solution I'm increasingly coming to is to utilise existing tollgates on the information flow. There are two which suggest themselves strongly: ISPs, and general taxes. This end
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