Let's be honest, very few people would want to pay upfront for that. Maybe it could work with very specialized social media with 50,000 users max, but not at the scale of Facebook. The question is, why is everyone flocking to these giga social media when smaller forums like HN did the job for decades before that?
I like HN, it's not perfect, but I had several opportunities to engage with "famous" developers in meaningful ways that would not have been possible on Twitter or Facebook and this is invaluable to me. Same with another design/photography related forum in my native language.
This is a model that might work commercially or at least with crowdfunding. A paid Twitter of Facebook? No.
I like HN, it's not perfect, but I had several opportunities to engage with "famous" developers in meaningful ways that would not have been possible on Twitter or Facebook and this is invaluable to me. Same with another design/photography related forum in my native language.
This is a model that might work commercially or at least with crowdfunding. A paid Twitter of Facebook? No.