• jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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    I think this is showing both how much your data is worth, and what it costs to actually run / use these services. People don’t want to pay, but I’ve always thought pay for a service was a potentially much less shitty business model. However, instead what we often get now is both pay for a service and still privacy invasion / selling our data. And who’s going to trust Facebook here?

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      yeah same with YouTube plus: if you pay, they can sell your data at a premium, because you’re in the group that can be made to pay

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      Except not at all. This isn’t what it costs them or what your data (targeted ad views) are worth. This is what the hope a few suckers will pay them (and to get you used to the idea of extremely expensive premium services), and otherwise at least 3 (but probably more) orders of magnitude more than they’d make if you watched the ads.

      All these subscriptions have the same problem: they’re incredibly pricey, offer almost nothing in return (they usually still track you), and if you had to pay them all you’d have like at least a $2k hole in your budget just for subscriptions.

      It just doesn’t make sense.

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        I’m not sure that you’re not underestimating the cost for these sorts of services. The only long running sort of social media (BBS) I know of that is and has been for decades straight pay for access is The WELL. And they need to charge $15 a month.

        https://www.well.com/join/pricing/

        Of course, they’re not anywhere near the scale of Facebook, but they are similar to a mid sized fediverse server from what I can tell. I honestly think the actual thing going on is most people find value in a free service, but don’t find enough value to pay what it’d cost to make it a straightforward pay for service business.

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      Your last question nails it. Why would you ever trust meta? And without a huge contingent of people going with you, it’d be hard to pay for a new social service that you could potentially believe won’t at all profile you.