HACKER Q&A
📣 paulbourcereau

What do you think about a subscription based social media?


The reason people are being so polarized and post misinformation, is that it benefits social medias by generating engagement, which is required for an advertisement based business model.

What would happen then in a fully subscription based social media ? I believe the answer is less incentive to promote meaningless content, less incentive to lock up people in what they already like, and just better content overall.

And this wouldn't have to be very expensive either... If we look at Twitter's average revenue per user (~$25/year), the monthly subscription would likely be less than $5.

So tell me, what do you think about it ? Is this something you would like to try out ?

Thanks, Paul

  👤 delopsu Accepted Answer ✓
> social medias by generating engagement

This is what people also like it for (to write and to read). Do you want media that is not engaging?

I wonder how it could be started. Who and why would post there?

👤 sp332
Cohost is trying this. So far they are bleeding cash, but the community is having a great time while it lasts.
👤 rsynnott
… Wait, you think people post misinformation on social media to benefit the _social media’s_ revenue model? What’s the possible benefit to the liar in that?
👤 RGamma
The future is self-hosted (as it was) and federated (as it partially was) and redistributable (as it mostly wasn't).

Fuck full centralization.