Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community's Mastodon server, for instance.

Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community’s Mastodon server, for instance.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    54·
    4 months ago

    I mean, how else do you expect things to work? Internet platforms aren’t free to operate. Isn’t paying creators directly supposed to be the ideal solution, instead of infesting pages with ads?

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷 That’s money going where it’s needed.

      If I understand SubClub correctly, it’s monetisation on a user level, which in the past has only really given us influencers. I rather enjoy not having that kind of bullshit on the fediverse.

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        63·
        4 months ago

        I’m not sure what the difference between SubClub or Patreon is supposed to be. Other than SubClub takes a smaller cut.

        • astro_ray@piefed.social
          4·
          4 months ago

          That’s exactly what I thought when I first saw this. The difference in that they market it as a fediverse extension.

      • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

        Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate