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Re:5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Dam... by wolco on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:34PM (#20006175)
A paid youtube? Not sure they would be worth it without the endless amounts of free content by free users.

Facebook? There are plenty of sites like facebook without users. Charge for an account.. reduce the userbase, the platform loses value without the free users.

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Re:5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Dam... by badfrog on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:36PM (#20006956)
> A paid youtube? Not sure they would be worth it without the endless amounts of free content by free users.

Even if it were possible to convert these to paid services now, there's no way they could have started out paid with no existing content/user base.

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Re:5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Dam... by Nextgrid on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:48AM (#20008041)
A paid Facebook means it would be designed to actually serve you (instead of wasting your time) and people would use it to connect with friends instead of liking endless shitposts.
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Re:5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Dam... by wolco on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:07AM (#20008108)
All your friends or anyone you want to contact would need to be paying customer.

If it is just friends why waste money on facebook just to talk. Most would rather spend that money on a more focused community/hobby like gaming and connect ingame.

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