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by bbanyc
1318 days ago
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The lack of a business model is why any attempt to revive Usenet or run a new federated protocol like Mastodon is probably not going to get anywhere. Somebody's got to pay for it, and the quality of discussion isn't nearly good enough to attract paying customers. (The binaries may be, but isn't it silly to pay for piracy?) Ad-supported services have bad incentives all around, but nobody's ever come up with an alternative way to pay for it, aside from being small enough that voluntary donations will do. |
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