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Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on

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Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on the subscription model when detailing its $15 million Series A back in October. Now, mockups teasing the upcoming Bluesky subscription, along with a list of possible features, have been published to Bluesky’s GitHub.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      There is no larger site the internet wouldn’t be better without.
      Google, Meta, Twitter, Youtube are all part of the monetization disease.
      The internet scaled on the back of subscribers, not big monetization, which frankly suck performance with tracking and ads rather than adding to it.
      We are on Lemmy, and lemmy would obviously work even better without competition from big monetized platforms.
      Communities doing passion projects serve the project. Without youtube we could have alternatives that worked better, because Youtube wouldn’t be there to attract all the attention.

      Back in the day we had indexing sites, fora, and also search before google. All things that helped finding interesting sites. The interesting sites of passion projects have become rare. And almost the entire internet is now driven for profit instead of interest and passion. I tell you, I can really see the difference, there is 100 times more irrelevant noise for the same amount of content.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          If you want social media, no matter if it’s Lemmy or Reddit, it costs a hell of a lot of money to host that.

          Seems to be doing fine, if scaled up cost and contributions would even out. IMO you actually proved my point.
          The scale of the internet is mainly based on ISP’s and those are paid by users. Sites can be distributed, the technology to do that has existed since the mid 90’s.
          These distribution models work fine, and do not have to deal with the added tasks of ads and trackers commercial sites use.
          You could pretty easily build a youtube like site around it.

            • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              6 months ago

              So of course, they’re going to be more likely to donate. Once you scale outside of those groups into groups of people who don’t care as much, and are less invested in the technology, you get less donations.

              This is true with how things are now, but an ad free internet would look very different, and users would behave differently and have different expectations.
              Note that I’m not arguing for a total non commercial Internet, things like subscriptions and Steam are fine, it’s things like Google Meta Twitter and the likes, where the users are actually the product, and the customers are the advertisers.

              PeerTube exists if you’re interested, by the way.

              Yes I know, but youtube makes it irrelevant, because everybody post there.