This is one of those things where I wonder if it was too early for its success? I don't know the answer but it feels like it could have been. I have never seen it used on US based media unfortunately.
Re:Flattr is closing down
by LadyCailin on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:49AM
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It was. You could read newspapers like NYT and Washington Post, New Yorker (maybe not those exactly, it’s been a while), but there was a large number of US publications. I guess it could have been too early, but I just feel like the demand wasn’t really there. People didn’t link to Blendle articles, they linked to NYT articles, and I didn’t really think about Blendle, and instead just found the archive.to link or whatever. But I dunno. I too would love a model like this to take off, but it just didn’t.
It still exists, sort of, you can download the app, but it’s all in Dutch now, and doesn’t work on a pay-per-article model anymore, it’s unclear to me what their model is now, since I don’t speak Dutch. In any case, what you’re asking for exactly was a thing before, and failed, so I assume that’s why you can’t do it - it was tried, and people didn’t use it.