Ask HN: 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
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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?
It would likely be even harder to start as it certainly wouldn't go viral. But eventually people would get there to write and consume insightful content from strangers or just connecting with family and friends as social medias were initially intended to.
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
> Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.
Fuck full centralization.