All successful open-access social networks are paid for by advertisers. The network runs for their benefit, not yours and mine. 11/
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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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Several new social networks tried the donation model. Wikipedia is the only large site I can think of which makes this work. (How?) 22/
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I think a p2p model would be helpful. People already pay for, and run, their own computers. So get rid of the servers and we're 67% there!
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Yes; there’s a lot of hard problems in that 33% :)
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Nope. Be great if we could pay them all somehow, but The Federation has multiple web clients programmed by people who do it purely for love.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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