Swa this pop up in my Github news feed today 🤔

Which links to https://github.com/musingstudio/go-subclub

A Go (golang) library for interacting with the sub.club API.

So I got curious and had a peek 👀

Let’s fund the Fediverse

Posting or hosting on the open social networks no longer means you have to do it for free. Developer Preview now available.

And further down:

Monetize your feeds

If you post quality content and you’ve developed a loyal audience, you should be able to ask your most passionate followers to support you with a premium subscription.

That’s a promise not available on the Fediverse …until now.

Hmmm 🤔

What do we think about this? 😅

I’ll share my opinion on this later 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net Not my cup of tea.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Please for the love of god, elaborate 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net I simply have absolutely no interest in selling my thoughts to others. I don’t like things behind paywalls. Each to their own, but I’m not gonna contribute to that.

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same. They say:

If you post quality content and you’ve developed a loyal audience, you should be able to ask your most passionate followers to support you with a premium subscription.

You already can ask your most passionate followers to support you: You can ask for donations.

I regularly donate to people if their content is great and if they actually ask for donations (many just don’t). The platforms for that already exist, I think. 🤔

I’m not interested in the slightest in stuff that has a paywall. “Subscribe for more content!” No, why, go away. Pages that do this immediately feel shady and not trust-worthy. 🤔

Nicely put, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Exactly, reminding people to subscribe etc. is dodgy. To me it feels they think their audience is dumb (and they might be right, I don’t know). Super annoying.