Steve Thompson, PhD on Nostr: We know subscription models work. But media sources that seek to punish viewers by ...

We know subscription models work. But media sources that seek to punish viewers by denying them full access to a story without a subscription cut off their noses to spite their faces because unless it's an exclusive the viewer can find the story elsewhere for free and will share it, thereby driving traffic to that site, traffic that forced subscription prevents itself from getting because viewers aren't posting links to them. So subscriptions are self-defeating.

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