Yes! Amazing!
The downfall is finally happening. It is one thing about scraping data from people for free, but most will never pay a cent for it.
They’re charging for premium features, not for basic access to the service.
People on Facebook after a certain point willingly gave up their name and address to sign up for it; I kinda doubt they know or care about their data being scraped.
I was truly shocked when this happened. I read about it and was like: haha, no one is giving out their real adress and or phone number on the internet. How dumb do they think people are? Oh…
Would anyone seriously pay a subscription for a messaging app? As long as I can send and receive messages that’s all the functionality I need and the second they try to charge for that, everyone will jump ship anyway.
I guess Discord Nitro has existed for a while but I don’t know a single person who’s even considered it, never mind actually subscribe.
Well, I paid 1 euro for Whatsapp back in the day because it was the only option besides SMS and so that 1 euro was way cheaper.
These days I gladly pay a couple bucks for a chat app that everybody uses so that they can pay the bills without selling my data or being funded by a corrupt government.
Which is went to Matrix, but it is hard to get people on the server I host myself.
I have a monthly dono to signal & i know a shitload of people who have nitro or at least nitro basic – that’s EXTREMELY common for all the profile customizations
WhatsApp used to not be free, I’m talking about before meta bought them, and totally worth paying the subscription for as they were the one of the kind multi-platform messenger working with all the non-smart phones that have internet connectivity and ability to install 3rd party apps.
And back when they charged for service they do not collect all your data.
I remember WhatsApp telling me I only got a year free when I first started using it but they never asked for payment after that. Maybe that fell in line with Meta buying them.
Honestly, if they did this instead of being the data collection, forced fed ads and manipulation machine that they are id think its great. But they’re going to be just as evil and now youre paying them which is stupid.
Is it like… they’ll offer to pay me a subscription fee to use them oooor…?
How interesting their paid tier has no mention of being ad free
“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.
Notice almost all of this is outward facing. It doesn’t improve your experience, but it gives you a thing that others see. The goal is the same thing as children bullying other children to buy iPhones. They don’t know what the product is. They just built in features that tell you if other people aren’t using it, so you can make fun of them.
iPhoines, Playsations, Samsung phones or other expensive tech.
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.
Gen X is most of the fediverse!
How very dare you? Gen X is long off Facebook - it’s our parents on there, being radicalised by Russian bots
ikr?
You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?
profile customizations
So we bringing back MySpace?
Welp, time to do the “previously free and basic feature is now moved into paid plan” dance every few months.
Good. Kill off this shit sooner
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?
Pay today to get what MySpace gave for free 15 years ago.
Ah, enshittification, my old friend. Here we go again.
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lol
I believe the full phrase is “SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHIIIIIIIIITS!”
Are you a shaaaaaaark?
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.
Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!
I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.
And people will buy it because they’re addicted, and will feel the need to get more dopamine by getting what others can’t. Feeling unique or exclusive until everybody has it. Then instead of getting rid of it, it’ll just have price creep like all other subscriptions until it’s $30/mo. You’ll only hear complaints about how expensive it got, not the fact they’re paying for something retarded in the first place!
I mean, it’s terrible they’re offering it at all, but there are those dumb enough to pay for it, too. Companies just take advantage of it, and there’s nothing to regulate it.
