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SIGMA920 t1_j12n9td wrote

Reply to comment by Lord_Derp_The_2nd in Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by geoxol

> If there were a subscription based model, the algorithm could be engineered to... respect your time, deliver you content quickly, and fact check the content.

If only you hadn't just added a paywall to using it. Social media works as it does because you're free to sign up and use it as you will. Make someone pay and now you've just added a monthly cost that they will have to consider.

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Lord_Derp_The_2nd t1_j13jhbc wrote

I suppose it's not that it would require a subscription necessarily, just that you would need to find a way to make the income stream align with positive end user outcomes.

At the end of the day, money runs companies, and keeps employees well, employed. If their month-to-month goals and KPIs internally revolve around "how do we make the most money via ads and selling user data"... that's what got us here. It's a very "road to hell is paved with good intentions" situation. The individual contributors, the actual coders, didn't sit down to architect this exploitative mental health mess that social media became. It got built slowly commit by commit, due to the profit focus being what it is.

Change to goals, change to outcome. Make the money come from delivering a superior customer experience, and the app will trend in that direction.

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