Arms race between ad tech, inventing ever-more-powerful ways spy on your browswing, and countermeasures, makes more&more web sites fail. 14/
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Popular revolt against the advertising-based web, or technical collapse, within a few years? I hope so! 15/
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But what's the alternative? Users must pay. Via subscriptions, donations, or micropayments? But no one knows how to make these work. 16/
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The highest-value sites are paywalled. Everyone hates that because it's a hassle to sign up, and you don't know if it's worth it. 17/
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Once a very successful social network has stopped growing, it could start charging users for access. I hope twitter does this! 18/
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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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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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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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Mastodon is donation-supported. If every user gave a few dollars per month at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786 it would succeed. 23/
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For Mastodon to be an adequate twitter replacement, it needs a billion users, roughly. Will a billion people donate? I doubt it. 24/
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Mastodon was huge fun yesterday; it was many of the best people from twitter, talking uninhibitedly, without boring and nasty ones. 25/
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