palafo

@palafo@mstdn.social

<Mastodon native profile> Editor, breaking/trending news. I am not The New York Times; I just work there. Observer. Reporter. Writer. Zen Buddhist. Chess player. Cyclist. Music lover. Constant reader. Tech geek. Podcast fan. Fact-based. Pro-science. Anti-bigot. Imperfect human, just like you.

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palafo, to random

Mastodon is the only site where a user is guaranteed to gripe about a paywalled article every time. Folks, ads are dead. Subscriptions pay for the journalism and feed our families. A trial sub is cheap. I give away a lot of free links. You can read many with an email (regi-wall is not a paywall). It is easy to get around with research. You do you. Just don’t reply with a complaint or a paywall evasion. It’s kind of rude. I may block you. Move on. Read something else. It’s a big old internet.

palafo,

@glennf I can post lots of free NYT but it is a bit of work, especially on my phone, and it’s after midnight and nobody’s paying me to be on this platform… Apple News is a great deal, though ugly and annoying IMO. I pay for it, WaPo, NYT in print, New Yorker, podcasts, many other sources at my own expense. I also hit a lot of paywalls. Oh well. I move on.

palafo,

@stefanm Micropayments don’t work, or have not so far. We don’t offer them for that reason. Our “leaky paywall” is profitable and pays for a lot of expensive journalism. People value it or they don’t. Do what works for you. No hard feelings. But this is how we do it.

palafo,

@stefanm Yes, they tried it through an outside platform, in Europe. It failed. The problem is it does not provide enough $ to pay salaries or buy equipment or pay for travel or even keep the lights on. This way works. It does leave some out, but there are many news outlets, libraries, certain # of free articles etc. We know our business.

palafo,

@stefanm We’d have to charge $20 an article or something if it was all micropayments. With subs, you as one user can get it all for months at that price — it scales with a lot of customers. It’s like how cable TV is cheap compared to paying for 20 streaming services or pay per view for every episode. But there is space for many models. It just doesn’t support what we do at our scale — 1,800 journalists around the world

palafo,

@gamingonlinux @chasalin @ReneeWestberry Oh, I love Mastodon. I just want people to change this one thing! It's not too much to ask. Also, I'm mostly just amusing myself with this thread.

palafo, to random

Shakespeare may have strutted and fretted here https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/world/europe/william-shakespeare-stage-uk.html

palafo, to random

Cheers! https://nyti.ms/46vYP0M

palafo, to random

That's a hell of a thing https://nyti.ms/3F3e6KV

palafo, to random

What the hell was THAT? This: https://nyti.ms/46BetIl

palafo, to random

That's not me in those online dental ads, Tom Hanks says: It's an AI. https://nyti.ms/45fgwRh

palafo, to random

So much for laws https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/us/darryl-george-texas-lawsuit-crown-act.html

palafo, to random

I am getting ratio’d on Threads for saying it kind of sucks there. Ok, that was a bit combative. Most replies say they find Mastodon “too hard” and they get less engagement. Not my experience here. But with 100 plus million users I fear it will be the Xitter replacement — and May swamp the Fediverse AOL on Usenet Endless September style if they ever do fully integrate as an instance

palafo, to random

The day after a trip to Egypt in 2021, the indictment said, the Senate Democrat asked in an internet query “how much is one kilo of gold worth.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/nyregion/robert-menendez-indicted.html

palafo, to random

In the end, no one will be held criminally responsible for the death nearly four years ago of a man who repeatedly exclaimed, “I can’t breathe,” as officers tried unsuccessfully to remove his handcuffs at a North Carolina jail https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/john-neville-charges-dropped-north-carolina.html

palafo, to random

Who will replace Mike Bloomberg? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/climate/bloomberg-succession-plan.html

palafo,

@joy hm not seeing that anywhere on site

palafo, to random

What's your Roman Empire? We asked people who are not men. The answers: their ex-best friends, space aliens, Princess Diana, that Tom Holland lip-syncing video ... (free link)https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/arts/roman-empire-women-tiktok.html?unlocked_article_code=n0YzQwL5V4oXii4ZvzGHHTyiO2sYHsqzYSQ5opgX6iXUNfpVEC10aukVHwDiv1smzt2KNs4_2RRaWnH5_ZdsAkOnJA9xfr1fOTr8hVKy5wtKdypbWp7k2Rz3JSg4BiLq1f-H70g9uK42WhXVA_TV9G4CWbGoCbGjDevEQIDDcKUirwi5Zd3fArQKqBYwfE1jOqFNrgbwcoIe-2BiJxfGl-KgYEDiDXTcsGCI3WWGElOn1nOIvZhag6wQZK2urDSuqcXRxUGdbre1BmJjbRPaEqCl-sxMjhGh9-47UJhj3TwbB8p1FYDRjGtBKFWtttUvJuPmbeyU_MOmdgb2HIDM7w&smid=url-share

jwildeboer, to random
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Deleted BlueSky. It didn’t give happiness. ActivityPub does.

palafo,

@jwildeboer I have had some fun there but wish it was just an instance

agiletortoise, to random
@agiletortoise@mastodon.social avatar

Anyway, “Fart” is in the NYT Spelling Bee dictionary, but “Turd” is not.

palafo,

@agiletortoise So many inexplicable choices. (Also: Hello. I love Drafts.)

palafo, to random

The four-bedroom Spanish colonial-style house was tucked off a quiet street, with a kidney-shaped pool and towering palm trees. The house was known as “Cursum Perficio,” which in Latin loosely translates to “I end the journey.” Free link. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/marilyn-monroe-house-saved-los-angeles.html?unlocked_article_code=zkN6YGjVjzTa9hEk8PA-q4fXRJs3MQ8XAQaR4OYijejgc-jSueqYSLI13nSmKbzt9vTP8G9dC4IsqgRpo87KcPEf8qQAB8apR4Wn4ARjZWYJj76omaZdTaFIUMNVGg9RoW5wuM8d3pRINg5FbruRGuOPhc3pgtPLEJxiuoSXY2ggjkdFqIJpApxMQ5znW6iyOH8rhCaLodjFvUSyorDk5LTze9MqiFfzHBFsVInMpdnHJiWYLKDvj1DZd8AzCz4wUvGa-ln_OGMYXF3P58IsIHl3luQPe424moulW2jgHNJWYvahGnWnjYpQ2E66Z0k07uaab5Dh5dmWuSTe5oRwOebH-hJzttr-1Rs&smid=url-share

palafo, to random

Ancient koala news https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/world/australia/australia-koala-cat-size.html

palafo, to random

My microblogging / social platform experience to date

Followers on X - 35,300 (declining)
Mastodon: 7,008 (growing)
Post.news: 1,000 (static)
Threads: 402 (growing slowly)
BlueSky: 471 (growing fast)

Best for News/big names: X, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Post

Volume/variety: X, Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, Post

Engagement: Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, X, Post

Features/UX: BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads, X, Post

Overall enjoyment: BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads, X, Post

palafo, to random

This remains an incredibly disturbing episode https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-drones.html

palafo, to random

Very close to deleting X from all devices

palafo,

@slcw The other people I enjoy following there who refuse to quit & the job. We’ll see

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