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Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (techcrunch.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/27733087

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I've never seen an ad-based tier on a Mastodon instance and the network does just fine 🤷‍♂️

Without executives leeching money from going to the actual cost of servers things seem to work better! Go figure!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Server hardware isn’t free. At the end of the day, SOMEONE has to pay the bills. Either you are the customer, or the product. If you insist on being the product, you don’t get to be surprised when platforms focus on the actual customers that actually pay the bills, by enshittifying the platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you are not a predatory bussiness your "clients" are not your enemy. So donations come in.

People are willing to pay for something that they use. What people don't like is paying for making someone rich without working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well said! My instance doesn't need ads because the servers don't care about profits.

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