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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.

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    Mastodon users don’t wanna be searchable

    Debatable. People don’t want their private account searchable. Creators and news account want their account and their post to be discoverable.

    The subscription model rarely works.

    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.

    Fedi becomes more accepting of ads

    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.

    • brie@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        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).

        • brie@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          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.