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Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup
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Debatable. People don't want their private account searchable. Creators and news account want their account and their post to be discoverable.
It's not that the subscription model doesn't work. It's the investor that demands things to grow even more all the time. There are plenty of service that simply deliver good stuff without investor demand and ended being sustainable for years.
At least, some non-Western fediverse instance runs ads. Notably the second biggest instance in fediverse, Misskey.io. Their ads are community ads, like promoting indie games, vtuber, comic books, IRL gallery event, etc. They also did subscription providing additional cosmetics like Discord. Everyone's happy.
As it appears to me Mastodon is public like Twitter. I didn't know about private instances. Why use this format when there's chat rooms?
What subscriptions do you have?
Thanks, I'll take a look at misskey.
The notion that Mastodon (and/or) Twitter as public conversation is not universal.
There's a lot of people, especially in other language that use the social media as microblog or casual coversation. I'm Indonesian, and a lot of people here using Twitter as "anon" account for random rambling (basically microblog) without even interacting with anyone (except IRL friend).
Even Mastodon (and other fedi software) has feature for followers only post or quiet posting (cannot be viewed in live feed, or discovery).
Thanks for explaining. I use group chats for IRL friends. It's strange that some prefer mastodon because of the twitter format. I suppose it's like private Facebook groups.
I like the sharp distinction between private stuff and searchable stuff. So it's good to have them as IM vs forum formats.