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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    21 days ago

    Who the hell ever looked at the internet and figured, “The fediverse is really interesting, but it needs more annoying influencers who can be bought by corporations to peddle their wares”?

    No thanks, please pack this up where it will not be found again.

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    “I think it’s important, for the ecosystem to thrive, that there be a way to have premium content to build businesses here,” he said. “That’s a fundamental belief.”

    Hard pass.

    There isn’t a need, that’s some bullshit. Maybe some want to monetize their platform, but certainly not all. Fuck this push for finding another way to charge people for shit at every turn being masked as creator support.

    I hate it.

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      21 days ago

      So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

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        20 days ago

        sub.club is not aimed at servers but monetization of content from individual users. Opposing this doesn’t mean someone oppose supporting their home instance monetarily.

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        20 days ago

        Idk if this is some misguided insult or a legit question.

        There is zero need for monetization and corporate bullshit to infiltrate Lemmy. People see an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a newer social media and are quick to stink it up with the same old shit. Fuck that, I’m sick of it.

        Lemmy does not have to be a carbon copy of the worst parts of the internet to survive. It is not a requirement to be a reddit clone or a cash generator or be profitable to be usable.

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    21 days ago

    Any bets this will only work with Mastodon because it was built and designed only against Mastodon?

    I wouldn’t even be surprised if other Fediverse server apps could simply circumvent sub.club if sub.club assumes that everything else out there works like Mastodon, too.