How interesting their paid tier has no mention of being ad free
“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.
I passed on it a decade ago. Got out when shit was getting bad with ads, memes, and other stuff not actually “social”.
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.
profile customizations
So we bringing back MySpace?
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?
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.
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.
People that still use meta
What a bunch of losers
network effect is strong
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
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.
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.
No one needs Lemmy. For Signal, just install it on her phone and text her. That’s all it takes.
Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder
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.
Ah, enshittification, my old friend. Here we go again.
LOLLLLLLLLL SUCK A DICK!!!
lol
I believe the full phrase is “SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHIIIIIIIIITS!”
Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.
I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.
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.
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
Honey! New idiot tax just dropped!
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.
You’d have to pay me to use that crap
Absolute genius billionaire move
There are an estimated 3 billion MAUs (monthly active users) on FB. Even with a 1% take rate that is still that is still $120M per month or $1.4B/yr.
Just like spam, they only need a small amount to rake in a large amount of revenue.
