love this for them. the well is running dry

Desperation

This will fail spectacularly.

Most likely outcome: almost no one buys in. Meta keeps the service going, maintaining the features at a loss, for several years. Eventually, the end the whole experiment, cancel everyone’s subscriptions. The nicer features (eg, ad blocking) will never see the light of day again, while the dumb features (adding minion animations to text posts) will be rolled out to all users.

Less likely outcome: enough people start paying to perk up some ears. It becomes a not-uncommon subscription to have… but not very common either, similar to youtube premium. Meta makes the base product increasingly unusable in an attempt to drive more users to the paid version (and because they can now justify more ads with “well buy the subscription”). Eventually, the platforms become so unusable that everyone… stops using them.

Yet another reason to avoid Meta platforms.

Loool fuck off

Fuck them.

Time to tell your friends about pixelfed, friendica, and signal

Delete all that shit

FFS…