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> At this point, it's all geared toward maximizing ad revenue Well, you have to make money somehow and users will never pay for social media after having been
by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> At this point, it's all geared toward maximizing ad revenue
Well, you have to make money somehow and users will never pay for social media after having been spoiled for 15+ years by free Facebook , not to mention the 20+ years of free Google.
When I paid for Linkedin Gold I felt scammed and canceled after a month.
People are not willing to pay for marginal improvements, they are only willing to pay for very important and vital stuff which matters a lot to them. For example...getting laid, that's why Tinder pay feature brings in revenues.
Getting laid is the dictionary definition of "important and vital" and the difference between chatting on Tinder and actually getting laid using Tinder is enormous, it's not just a marginal improvement and thus prompts people to pay out of pocket to have their profile shown to a much higher number of users
- fsflover 4y ago> Well, you have to make money somehow and users will never pay for social media Somehow Mastodon has 3 millions of users despite those problems AFAIK, and growing exponentially.
- thfuran 4y agoI agree that it's difficult to unwind the expectation of free (ad-supported) services and difficult for paid alternatives to compete. I really hope we can eventually entirely or nearly entirely do away with that entire ecosystem though. But I don't really see that happening any time soon.
- brtkdotse 4y ago> you have to make money somehow and users will never pay for social media SomethingAwful charge(ed|s) $10 to create an account and we’re ruthless with banning people who were not behaving. It worked really well