pay for digital social spaces
exploring a future of digital social spaces / networks where users pay
pay for digital social spaces
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It may be more likely to be pay-to-play. Design takes time and effort. Content creation takes time and effort. Everything that goes into a shiny digital footprint – website design, hosting, platform service subscriptions – costs money. Compare this to a random book club meet-up advertised through a single flyer made by hand and stapled to a few... See more
Elise Granata • What We Lose When Optimizing Community
an argument against “pay to play”
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social.coop - a mastodon server that charges a membership fee
🧠 The puzzle of vanishing member dues - Part 2
Saumya Gupta • Build IRL Newsletter #19
from BuildIRL team; exploring challenges builders have w/ “dues”
The mistake of the 1.0 platforms was to optimize for engagement—likes, clicks, and shares. This was a successful short-term growth strategy, but at the long-term cost of sustainability. For engagement includes not only joy but rage, not only mirth but sadness. Incentivizing these things creates hellishness, driving people to disengage, to become... See more