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Can someone clarify this for me. It seems like they are openly publishing to a number of formats, which presumably(?) don't require an app.net account to access
by chrisduesing 13y ago
Can someone clarify this for me. It seems like they are openly publishing to a number of formats, which presumably(?) don't require an app.net account to access. Does this mean that they are defacto turning it in to a pay to publish (rather than pay to subscribe) platform?
- neuroscr 13y agoI would say no. Free accounts are limited to following 40 accounts but are unlimited in followers. Which means publishers don't have to pay anything to have a large following. But a subscriber may have to pay if they wish to consume a lot of the content.
- chrisduesing 13y agoBut if they are publishing each user's feed to RSS, then you don't need an app.net account to subscribe to more than 40 users. Or am I missing something?
- unknownian 13y agoNo you are not. What's wrong with releasing data for free in the most open format? If you don't have an account, you can't reply to them, of course.
- neuroscr 13y agoWell, you don't get to use the handy apps with the cool UIs the 3rd party devs have made. But yea, I suppose you can consume it all on your own too.