• Kinglink@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know the right price point, but 1 dollar a month probably would have worked for most people. It just wasn’t enough because they probably can make more than 1 by spoon feeding you ads now.

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      8 months ago

      I’d go as far as 5 dollars a month, which is more than the buck thirty they make off users right now.

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        8 months ago

        It just boggles the mind.

        They had the userbase. They had the community moderation. They had the power-users basically doing their job for them. They could have had a bulletproof, tied-to-world-population-growth metric - not super fast, but basically monotonically increasing. They basically could have turned it into a sustainable money printer, while not crushing user enthusiasm. Hell, they could have even done an opt- in policy for ML training datasets, either offsetting or outright paying users a commission for content that’s used as part of a training set. There were so many possibilities that didn’t involve pointing the ship at an iceberg.

        Spez threw it away because he wanted the quick payout from ad revenue.

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        8 months ago

        Active users would, I probably would too. Problem is most apps would struggle to even get new users with that system.