I feel as though App.net's day has come and gone sadly. I had high hopes for the platform, but I think it started off on the wrong foot, coming across as a clon

I feel as though App.net's day has come and gone sadly. I had high hopes for the platform, but I think it started off on the wrong foot, coming across as a clone of Twitter instead of what they really wanted to be. My understanding based on my Twitter feed alone is that many forgot to turn off auto-renew in their App.net accounts, many of the renewals were unintentional. I think this could be the last year we see App.net as we all know it, unless they can pull off something magical. I personally think they should open source the code and pivot to a support model, try and move into the enterprise somehow, but that could all just be wishful thinking. I alone wanted to see App.net succeed, but it just didn't get the traction it needed and the high price-point was a deterring factor for many developers to join. If they lowered the price to $50 or heck even $20 (which seems quite low) they would have had way more signups and I would have been more inclined to give it a longer chance/keep paying. I always felt as though App.net was an RSS reader for consuming API's. A place where you could feed in your Facebook feed, Twitter, email and more. Sadly, the public mostly saw it as a paid Twitter alternative without the advertisements.