Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community’s Mastodon server, for instance.
Who the hell ever looked at the internet and figured, “The fediverse is really interesting, but it needs more annoying influencers who can be bought by corporations to peddle their wares”?
No thanks, please pack this up where it will not be found again.
You know what this world needs? More subscriptions! - These assholes.
Just what the fediverse needs, micro-transactions!.
Any bets this will only work with Mastodon because it was built and designed only against Mastodon?
I wouldn’t even be surprised if other Fediverse server apps could simply circumvent sub.club if sub.club assumes that everything else out there works like Mastodon, too.
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I think I could get behind an instance subscription, granted it wasn’t an obscene amount. I wonder what the upkeep on mastodon.social could be.
Most instances, including yours (and mine), ask for donations. Maybe start there?
If you gave them even $1 a month it would probably cover the hosting costs, though not anybody’s time.
That’s a great point. Here’s the Mastodon donation link in case anyone was interested!
Some types of content might take days to research or work on and might not have the audience to allow monetization by ads . mitra exists for those types of things and is open source unlike this project (it seems).
Regardless of how you feel about subscriptions, it’s a step in making the fediverse a more viable option for that that create content for a living.
