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Ask HN: Would you use paid social media?
Yes/No/Why?
Do you think paid social media can deliver something better than Reddit/HackerNews?
- idiomaticrust 3y agoNo. Recently I started to use RSS reader again and I subscribe to blogs that I see valuable. Tech twitter is terrible - doom scrolling to find something useful. Too much vim/tailwind related bs.
- wanabananascene 3y agoNope. Go where the users are, majority are not going to pay and if you want to be involved you are left with little choice.
- mrobins 3y agoIn theory yes but practically probably not. I’d be looking for a Twitter/Instagram replacement with: A) no ads B) no data mining C) sensible (to me) moderation/filtering tools D) right to delete E) large network with diverse viewpoints Truth is most people won’t pay and many who will would be bad actors so E is struck. Even if a service doesn’t data mine and has a right to delete, others will create scrapers so B and D are void. Im tired of “being the product” and Kagi has gotten me on board with paid search, but social seems harder to solve.
- tendto 3y agoHow would the service pay for itself? Are you willing to pay? re: B, D) Could data mining be okay for public feeds where people choose to be anonymous? Could private groups be peer-to-peer encrypted so the network can't identify the participants, can't decrypt and can't mine the conversation? If I build it will you come?