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If there's a social media website with none of the problem factors of FB : ads, tracking, manipulation, selling of personal data, etc. How much would we pay th

• josephg 6y ago
  Probably very little. Users are conditioned to assume internet infrastructure (chat rooms, reddit, twitter, gmail, etc) will be free. That said, Mastodon is doing reasonably well, depending on how you measure success.
• Nextgrid 6y ago
  I'm a minority but I'd be happy to pay ~30 bucks a month for a tool like Facebook as long as it doesn't behave in a user-hostile manner (so basically the Facebook from 10 years ago).
• throw_m239339 6y ago
  Let's be honest, very few people would want to pay upfront for that. Maybe it could work with very specialized social media with 50,000 users max, but not at the scale of Facebook. The question is, why is everyone flocking to these giga social media when smaller forums like HN did the job for decades before that? I like HN, it's not perfect, but I had several opportunities to engage with "famous" developers in meaningful ways that would not have been possible on Twitter or Facebook and this is invaluable to me. Same with another design/photography related forum in my native language. This is a model that might work commercially or at least with crowdfunding. A paid Twitter of Facebook? No.
• new_guy 6y ago
  > How much would we pay that site, on a monthly or per-use basis ? I run a network of sites, based on 'no censorship', no ads, no tracking etc etc Typically while everyone loves the sites and the value they provide, only about 0.05% of people are actually willing to pay anything for it. We do ok, but unless you aggressively monetise/milk/sell out your users you can never get to FB scale.