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> solving RSS as business model. There needs to be some sort of a commerce layer around feeds > I would gladly pay money for an Amazon Prime-like subscription
by JetSpiegel 9y ago
> solving RSS as business model. There needs to be some sort of a commerce layer around feeds
> I would gladly pay money for an Amazon Prime-like subscription where I can get unlimited text-only feeds from a bunch of a major news sources at a reasonable price. It would also allow me to get my privacy back to boot.
Facebook had a scandal over selling private data, so move to RSS for the privacy! RSS doesn't allow tracking (from Amazon), let's turn it into HTML.
- gregknicholson 9y ago> solving RSS as business model. There needs to be some sort of a commerce layer around feeds RSS is not a business model. Selling things people actually want is a business model. If you can't persuade someone to pay for your content (perhaps via willingly watching adverts), then it's not economically viable content. If you care enough to continue publishing it, great, but it's out of your own pocket.
- gkya 9y ago> If you can't persuade someone to pay for your content (perhaps via willingly watching adverts), then it's not economically viable content. "useless content". FTFY.
- gregknicholson 9y agoNo, there's a difference between “economically viable” and “useful”. A labour of love may be very valuable to its author and its audience; it's just not a way to make money.
- gkya 9y agoCertainly. What I meant was the content that was meant to make money but not inherently economically viable, i.e. all that clickbait ad-ridden stuff out there.
- gregknicholson 9y agoAh, yeah. That is useless, by its own measure. Good riddance.