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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Yep, TechCrunch even addressed it in the article

Developed over the past few months, sub.club shares engineering and design resources with Mammoth, the Mastodon app backed by Mozilla, Long Journey Ventures and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff. Though some fediverse supporters don’t like the idea of VCs and for-profit businesses entering their space, Mammoth’s co-founder Bart Decrem thinks bringing money into the fediverse could help it to thrive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I saw, I was just venting frustration at that specific viewpoint.

It's annoying that the same tired tactics are being applied to every corner of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Eh, personally, I think that as long nobody forces anyone to use something it's fine, more variety is always good for the federated network

[–] saltesc 16 points 2 weeks ago

You haven't been on the internet long enough. This is how it starts...for like, the billionth time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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