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2 votes
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BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%
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Inside Elon Musk's 'extremely hardcore' Twitter
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Right-to-repair advocates question John Deere’s new promises
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The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere have signed a 'Memorandum of Understanding' allowing US customers to fix their own equipment
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As demand for electric vehicles soars, Stora Enso in Finland has hired engineers to look into the possibility of using lignin, a polymer found in trees, to make batteries
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Here’s the electric car that Sony is going to build with Honda
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Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
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Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’
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Apple makes plans to move production out of China
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
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Before his battery behemoths, Rivian’s billionaire founder made an eco sports car
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Elizabeth Holmes gets more than eleven years for Theranos scam
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An idea how to monetize social software
I wrote the following as a Twitter thread first but I think this idea could work for Reddit/Tildes/Mastadon and would love to know what you folks think of it. Here is how I would monetize a social...
I wrote the following as a Twitter thread first but I think this idea could work for Reddit/Tildes/Mastadon and would love to know what you folks think of it.
Here is how I would monetize a social network that could work for Twitter.
First of all, don’t charge your most valuable users - the power users that create the content for you. Instead focus on the users that get more value from your system - the consumers of the content.
The idea is simple - introduce a small time delay before content gets seen from the time it is published. For example, on Twitter it could be 1 minute. On Reddit it could be 10 minutes.
Paid subscribers would have no delay. Importantly - lift the delay for the users that generate a lot of views.
You can do revenue share with your content creators in proportion to how much time paid subscribers spent on their content.
And you can also identify your most valuable audience - the paid subscribers. This will help prioritize content moderation decisions, identify abuse, and prioritize appeals.
The delay would allow you to prioritize which content needs to be indexed instantly (ie from creators that paid subscribers are following) and which you can process on a best effort basis - saving on production costs.
You can gift subscriptions to your friends and family.
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Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook
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Facebook parent company Meta will lay off 11,000 employees
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First thing: Twitter sued by former staff as Elon Musk begins mass firing
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Spotify is openly lashing out at Apple over a dispute that centers on the 30% App Store fee they charge for in-app digital services transactions
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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification / And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired by Elon Musk
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Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
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Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
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Apple is an ad company now
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YouTube should charge for 4K. Hear me out.
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Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler
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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
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Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans
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Off the Mark
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discusses how he wants every subreddit to be its own media company and he wants to see money being exchanged from users to users and users to subreddits
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EVGA terminates NVIDIA partnership, cites disrespectful treatment
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The day the US TV industry died
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Adobe in final talks to acquire Figma for $20B USD
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Bitwarden raises $100 million from PSG Equity
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Amazon is acquiring iRobot
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Red Hat's next steps, according to its new CEO and chairman
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BMW makes heated seats a monthly subscription
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Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes
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Rogers CEO says service back online for most customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
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Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44B Twitter buyout deal
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TikTok turns on the money machine
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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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‘A mass invasion of privacy’ but no penalties for Tim Hortons
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Elon Musk’s regulatory woes mount as US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
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Broadcom announces plans to buy VMware in $61 billion deal
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Northvolt and Norsk Hydro will take their battery recycling joint venture to Europe later this year after the Swedish start-up opened their first plant in Norway
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Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
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Twitter set to accept Musk's original $43 bln offer
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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter outright for $41 billion
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Elon Musk becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder
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Waymo expands autonomous vehicle service to downtown Phoenix
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Uber reaches deal to list all New York City taxis on its app
7 votes