Re: gmipay

Posted on Thursday November 11, 2021

So this guy on the mailing list has posted another update to his Gemini paywall CGI script called 'gmipay'.

gemini://simonvolpert.com/gmipay/

Of all of the terrible things that The Web has spawned, I don't think I'm alone in my belief that paywalls are among the worst.

Can we agree to, you know, *not* do this kind of thing? It's inevitable that capitalist parasites are going to find ways to sink their grubby little chompers into everything; but please, let's at least try and fight this before it becomes a trend.

Don't do this; not here, too.

- panda-roux -

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[2021-11-11 20:26:08] (572aa) remyabel:

> I thought it was satire at first.

[2021-11-11 21:11:30] (2366d) panda-roux:

> So did I... :|

[2021-11-11 21:53:30] (57d8e) a wanderer:

> holy sh*t learning about this has really bummed me out....

[2021-11-12 09:59:47] (81dbc) gerikson:

> I could see this was crapto (Bitcoin Cash) shilling at the second paragraph. BCH's schtick is "cheap transactions" so they're actively pushing microtransactions.

[2021-11-12 21:33:01] (a1ab7) blu.256:

> This idea is wrong on so many levels... I remember seeing around a satirical parody of such a system (with a random numbers "payment" system), and it was fun. This thing is just bad, and the amount of work that went into it is frightening.