But I want to be able to talk to anyone in the world, about anything. Twitter lets me do that. Who pays for it? I don't. 10/
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A successful social network has to pay for servers; people to run the servers; for programmers to maintain & extend the software. 21/
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$$ to pay for a non-advertising social network has to come from users. http://app.net tried the subscription model; it failed. 22/
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Free as in "free speech", yes. They could be free as in "free beer" too if everyone ran their own instances on an old desktop PC at home
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Wikipedia gets around this by having become a big enough deal to attract "civic duty" funds, but even they'll face issues if Yahoo folds.
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Paying for voting power is working on http://Steemit.com - and users are getting paid.
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