A closed social network is relatively inexpensive to run, and has high value to a specific group of users, who will pay for it. 8/
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New social networks are mainly VC-funded; but that only puts off the who-pays? question. VCs eventually want revenue. Profits, even! 19/
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Attractive alternatives have suffered from the delusion that open source software makes everything free. 20/
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I'd gladly pay for Twitter iff: * my readers don't have to pay to read me * my friends won't be banned * there will be no "curation"
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What this comes down to is that once I pay, I have to be treated as owning what I'm paying for.
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One could see it this way: VC allows a social experiment of that kind even if it turns out economically bad, lol
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Nope. The network hack around paywalls like they hack around any other form of censorship. Users would just go somewhere else.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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