cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/27733087
Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on the subscription model when detailing its $15 million Series A back in October. Now, mockups teasing the upcoming Bluesky subscription, along with a list of possible features, have been published to Bluesky’s GitHub.
Never heard of this, it sounds terrible from a brief web search.
Here’s a TESCREAL adherent’s manifesto, by world’s biggest asshole Marc Andreesen:
https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
And here’s a good response to that psychotic manifesto:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/10/techno-optimism-is-not-something-you-should-believe-in