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Exactly this. I would be entirely supportive of a model where a social network (not social media) was established with modest annual fees with the condition th
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Exactly this.
I would be entirely supportive of a model where a social network (not social media) was established with modest annual fees with the condition that the usual privacy violation and targeting and engagement hacking wasn't going to happen.
But that's clearly not what this is.
- greenie_beans 3y agoi would pay for this.
- dgfitz 3y agoYou mean like this?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723 (app.net)
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoYeah I never claimed such a thing is a viable business model. Esp in competition with free (but not actually) mass scale Twitter, FB, etc. I think you'd have to offer something entirely different that is not in "competition" in any way by not being "alike" at all, but still filling some similar needs. I personally have never enjoyed Twitter or the kind of service it offered, so would never consider paying for anything which looked like it really. Though I guess I do donate to the Mastodon instance I have an account on, but that's more of a philosophical thing than anything to do with subscribing to a service. I barely use it.