WT:Social - записывайтесь в очередь, господа!

[gracheeha]

 Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly rolled out a new social network that is intended to get right what Facebook and Twitter have so far been getting wrong.  The site goes against the ad-funded models normalized by Google, Facebook, and Twitter, instead asking users to pay a subscription fee to access information and communicate on the site. 

It costs $12.99 a month or $100 a year in the US... In other words, about the same as a Netflix or Spotify subscription. However, questions remain over what content WT:Social can provide that users would be willing to part with money for...

..."The business model of social-media companies, of pure advertising, is problematic," Wales told the publication. "It turns out the huge winner is low-quality content," he added.  

Wales hopes WT:Social can attract 50 million or even half a billion users and points to the success of Netflix and Spotify in attracting people who are willing to pay for "meaningful" content. 

Signing up is free, but WT:Social has established a wait-list that paying donors can bypass. So far, just 200 people have paid to skip the waiting list...

...WT:Social aims to build smaller self-sustaining communities built around niche subjects.  And rather than hire moderators to monitor fake news as Facebook has, Wales' social network would rely on a community of users to enforce standards. Since all content on the platform can be edited or deleted by other users, he believes there's a good incentive for good behavior by users.

(www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/)

 

Последняя фраза, что кто угодно может изменить или стереть то, что я написала, не кажется мне уместным для социальной сети, поэтому я не тороплюсь расставаться с сотней долларов, а просто записалась на очередь в WT:Social.  Мой номер в очереди 98319.  Посмотрим, что из этого выйдет.  DW меня вполне устраивает и gracheeha.dreamwidth.org/ останется моим журналом.