You’d have to pay me to use that crap
Honey! New idiot tax just dropped!
Pay today to get what MySpace gave for free 15 years ago.
People that still use meta
What a bunch of losers
Considering that’s how most cities get info out kinda makes sense people still use it. Not to mention good luck getting little ol’ grandma to switch to signal or Lemmy
Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They’d have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn’t need an account to access it.
Definitely. The problem is the worlds run by corpo fascists and they will do everything they can to maintain their control through tech.
If the right people are in the right positions though it becomes alot simpler to make happen.
Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder
network effect is strong
Genuienly hilarious.
You would have to pay me to have an account on any of those apps.
Oh, man, attention/validation addicts are really something.
They monetized human insecurity. Amazing.
How interesting their paid tier has no mention of being ad free
ads make them up to $20 a day, they would have to charge $600 a month to equals profits
I didn’t realize it was that high- im seeing that the average is around $15 a month, but I’m sure there are whales that hit that $600/mo
The problem is that only your heaviest users are going to pay to remove the ads, so it doesn’t make sense to price the subscription at any sort of average user. You need to slide the price point way up the distribution just to break even.
Ah, enshittification, my old friend. Here we go again.
“subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things.”
I’ll pass on that.
You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?
profile customizations
So we bringing back MySpace?
I passed on it a decade ago. Got out when shit was getting bad with ads, memes, and other stuff not actually “social”.
It’s the opposite of social. Especially facebook. There are only companies there, no actual people left (except some boomers maybe)
My parents are on Facebook every day and so are their friends. I’m pretty sure Facebook is what happened to all the Gen Xers.
How very dare you? Gen X is long off Facebook - it’s our parents on there, being radicalised by Russian bots
ikr?
Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.
It used to be that your ISP included subscription for newsgroups, etc in the connection costs.
I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.
For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things.
Ah, they’re doing the Discord Nitro thing?
Does anyone actually use Discord Nitro?
I see surprisingly many on the servers I frequent. It’s included in Xbox GamePass now, so I guess that has caused a massive boost to the userbase, too
I know a few people who did before the whole discord thing happened and they all canceled.
I‘d happily pay a messenger that respects me as a user, even if that only meant not collecting my metadata. I‘d even pay a higher price like 5 bucks a month.
But instead they‘re trying to sell me STICKERS which I can already create myself from any image and care about maybe 2 times a year 😂
Use open source and donate requesting features. We can already do this. Or find a developer to sub to somewhere.
Good. Kill off this shit sooner
Welp, time to do the “previously free and basic feature is now moved into paid plan” dance every few months.
Fuck all the way off with all this subscriptions to finally make this AI shit profitable. It won’t work and people don’t need all this datacenters. I really hate this timeline and all this billionaire bullshit.
