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What cake and eat it too? There is just Content producers producing content that they want to be compensated forAnd I want to be compensated for writing HN comments. Alas, just because I want to be compensated for something, doesn't mean I will be. Content producers feeling entitled to compensation for their free and public content are kind of forgetting the content consumers have agency too.
> and the industry agreed upon best way to do that for serving a mainstream audience is to publish free content with supporting ads.
Just because it works, doesn't mean it's not wrong. Just because it worked for now, doesn't mean it'll keep on working. Nobody is entitled to their business model working forever, or at all.
> Wait so instead of doing what they're good at, content producers should individually be tasked with investing their resources in experimenting with different economic models to try find a viable alternative to serving content without ads?
Yes. They have the content, and want to exchange it for money. It's literally their job to figure out how to do this.
> The sites with a large enough content catalog are already doing this with subscriptions, some others are using patreon
Good. As it should be.
> consider utilizing their ad-free content alternative when available instead of cutting off their only revenue source.
Again, not my responsibility. Especially given that the social contract of the Web is, by design, that if your server responds with 200 OK + data, I get to render that data however I like.