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- some pirate@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 months
ads make them up to $20 a day, they would have to charge $600 a month to equals profits
- lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I didn’t realize it was that high- im seeing that the average is around $15 a month, but I’m sure there are whales that hit that $600/mo
2 monthsThe problem is that only your heaviest users are going to pay to remove the ads, so it doesn’t make sense to price the subscription at any sort of average user. You need to slide the price point way up the distribution just to break even.
- magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
“subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things.”
I’ll pass on that.
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
I passed on it a decade ago. Got out when shit was getting bad with ads, memes, and other stuff not actually “social”.
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
It’s the opposite of social. Especially facebook. There are only companies there, no actual people left (except some boomers maybe)
- atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
My parents are on Facebook every day and so are their friends. I’m pretty sure Facebook is what happened to all the Gen Xers.
- br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
How very dare you? Gen X is long off Facebook - it’s our parents on there, being radicalised by Russian bots
- MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish2 months
You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
Notice almost all of this is outward facing. It doesn’t improve your experience, but it gives you a thing that others see. The goal is the same thing as children bullying other children to buy iPhones. They don’t know what the product is. They just built in features that tell you if other people aren’t using it, so you can make fun of them.
Welp, time to do the “previously free and basic feature is now moved into paid plan” dance every few months.
For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things.
Ah, they’re doing the Discord Nitro thing?
I see surprisingly many on the servers I frequent. It’s included in Xbox GamePass now, so I guess that has caused a massive boost to the userbase, too
- athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
I know a few people who did before the whole discord thing happened and they all canceled.
- 2 months
Yeah I cancelled after that nonsense. I wanted to leave discord entirely for stoat/fluxer but none of my groups would budge unfortunately.
Genuienly hilarious.
You would have to pay me to have an account on any of those apps.
Oh, man, attention/validation addicts are really something.
They monetized human insecurity. Amazing.
- pimat@feddit.orgEnglish2 months
Fuck all the way off with all this subscriptions to finally make this AI shit profitable. It won’t work and people don’t need all this datacenters. I really hate this timeline and all this billionaire bullshit.
- 2 months
Considering that’s how most cities get info out kinda makes sense people still use it. Not to mention good luck getting little ol’ grandma to switch to signal or Lemmy
- foo@feddit.ukEnglish2 months
Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They’d have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn’t need an account to access it.
- 2 months
Definitely. The problem is the worlds run by corpo fascists and they will do everything they can to maintain their control through tech.
If the right people are in the right positions though it becomes alot simpler to make happen.
Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder
- Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish2 months
No one needs Lemmy. For Signal, just install it on her phone and text her. That’s all it takes.
- luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish2 months
For some types of businesses, particularly smaller ones, IG is literally a critical part of marketing. SEO alone often doesn’t cut it, if Google also takes into account activity on other platforms, and even then a majority of website activity comes from people seeing posts on Instagram.
No clue how the most recent enshittification affects that, but I doubt the core recommendation logic will have changed radically.
It’s fucked, but the tech corps sucking off each other makes self-employment hard if you don’t play their games.
- Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 months
Yes! Amazing!
The downfall is finally happening. It is one thing about scraping data from people for free, but most will never pay a cent for it.
People on Facebook after a certain point willingly gave up their name and address to sign up for it; I kinda doubt they know or care about their data being scraped.
- FatVegan@leminal.spaceEnglish2 months
I was truly shocked when this happened. I read about it and was like: haha, no one is giving out their real adress and or phone number on the internet. How dumb do they think people are? Oh…
They’re charging for premium features, not for basic access to the service.
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
And people will buy it because they’re addicted, and will feel the need to get more dopamine by getting what others can’t. Feeling unique or exclusive until everybody has it. Then instead of getting rid of it, it’ll just have price creep like all other subscriptions until it’s $30/mo. You’ll only hear complaints about how expensive it got, not the fact they’re paying for something retarded in the first place!
I mean, it’s terrible they’re offering it at all, but there are those dumb enough to pay for it, too. Companies just take advantage of it, and there’s nothing to regulate it.
- 2 months
Would anyone seriously pay a subscription for a messaging app? As long as I can send and receive messages that’s all the functionality I need and the second they try to charge for that, everyone will jump ship anyway.
I guess Discord Nitro has existed for a while but I don’t know a single person who’s even considered it, never mind actually subscribe.
- Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish2 months
Well, I paid 1 euro for Whatsapp back in the day because it was the only option besides SMS and so that 1 euro was way cheaper.
These days I gladly pay a couple bucks for a chat app that everybody uses so that they can pay the bills without selling my data or being funded by a corrupt government.
Which is went to Matrix, but it is hard to get people on the server I host myself.
- bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish2 months
WhatsApp used to not be free, I’m talking about before meta bought them, and totally worth paying the subscription for as they were the one of the kind multi-platform messenger working with all the non-smart phones that have internet connectivity and ability to install 3rd party apps.
And back when they charged for service they do not collect all your data.
- 2 months
I remember WhatsApp telling me I only got a year free when I first started using it but they never asked for payment after that. Maybe that fell in line with Meta buying them.
- 2 months
I have a monthly dono to signal & i know a shitload of people who have nitro or at least nitro basic – that’s EXTREMELY common for all the profile customizations
