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Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (techcrunch.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/27733087

Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on the subscription model when detailing its $15 million Series A back in October. Now, mockups teasing the upcoming Bluesky subscription, along with a list of possible features, have been published to Bluesky’s GitHub.

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

As it appears to me Mastodon is public like Twitter. I didn't know about private instances. Why use this format when there's chat rooms?

What subscriptions do you have?

Thanks, I'll take a look at misskey.

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

The notion that Mastodon (and/or) Twitter as public conversation is not universal.

There's a lot of people, especially in other language that use the social media as microblog or casual coversation. I'm Indonesian, and a lot of people here using Twitter as "anon" account for random rambling (basically microblog) without even interacting with anyone (except IRL friend).

Even Mastodon (and other fedi software) has feature for followers only post or quiet posting (cannot be viewed in live feed, or discovery).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for explaining. I use group chats for IRL friends. It's strange that some prefer mastodon because of the twitter format. I suppose it's like private Facebook groups.

I like the sharp distinction between private stuff and searchable stuff. So it's good to have them as IM vs forum formats.