Well that didn’t take long. Looks like they’re going the discord route and locking uploads + basic customization behind a subscription. You know, because we don’t already have enough of those.
Bluesky is working on a premium subscription that will add features like higher-quality video uploads and some profile customization options.
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Uh, are you paying a subscription for Lemmy?
I actually donate a few dollars on patron and for a few other projects.
I do my service and give a dollar a month or something to lemm.ee
Oh, absolutely! I pay for startrek.website too. My point what that the Fediverse works just fine when people volunteer their time and money to keep it running. The only reason you would need a subscription is to generate a profit to pay the executives.
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My point was that the Fediverse works just fine without a subscription, the people upset about a subscription are not upset about the cost, but about what it represents (or more specifically, what it doesn’t).
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Maybe it’s time we start restructuring our economy and society to not require everything to have a profit motive?
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I just don’t see how a social media site can be healthy/safe AND profitable.
If it has to make money it’s going to sell user data and force narratives, and the entire argument that it has to make money allows human beings to shrug responsibility for exploiting their userbase.
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The Fediverse offers a superior experience and it doesn’t even have profit motive!
Even if you take out the profit motive they still have costs.
Obviously in a non capitalist system our taxes would actually pay for public goods and services.
We wouldn’t make a social media entity pay their own operating costs if we were intentionally funding it as a public service.
Just like PBS and NPR.
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