How interesting their paid tier has no mention of being ad free
ads make them up to $20 a day, they would have to charge $600 a month to equals profits
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
The 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.
“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.
Good. Kill off this shit sooner
Pay today to get what MySpace gave for free 15 years ago.
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.
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
Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder
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.
Ah, enshittification, my old friend. Here we go again.
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.
It used to be that your ISP included subscription for newsgroups, etc in the connection costs.
Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!
Honey! New idiot tax just dropped!
Honestly, if they did this instead of being the data collection, forced fed ads and manipulation machine that they are id think its great. But they’re going to be just as evil and now youre paying them which is stupid.
You’d have to pay me to use that crap
I been discovering lately that many people in my circles are using Signal. I fucking hate whatsapp and would love to switch to Signal. But this dumb fuck app is too common around here. That is such a relief that these people do have it. Baby steps.
