We think Minds tried something like this (though it might be different tiers) and it didn’t exactly go well, forcing users to pay one way or the other always leads to economic pressures to keep users around, even if they are being toxic at least from what we have observed.
Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 3 days agoCorporations cannot create nontoxic social media, the incentives will always be there to make it toxic.
I don’t know that’s true. The incentives to make it toxic come from engagement being the goal, which is a function of advertising being the income. I’m not advocating for it, but if there were a flat subscription and no ads, I don’t think they’d have any economic pressures for toxicity.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Social media requires free users to function on to fundamental of a level for that to really work tbh