On: The web's original sin

[jkarneges]

  > Although I’m a fervent Twitter user and couldn’t do
  > without it, I am fundamentally unsympathetic to their
  > plight. Why? Because they don’t even allow me to pay.

Of course, App.net tried this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaduCfqpuQ

I, too, wish we could find a way out of the current mess. Most of the comments here seem to be focusing on the content publisher aspect of things, but I believe free services like Twitter (and Google, etc) are an even greater problem because of their important utility and limited alternatives.