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Comment by surrTurr

10 hours ago

so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool

about the monetization: i would strongly be against sponsored posts / the advertising BS we see in current social media. yes, it's what made them so profitable, but IMO it's also one of the main reasons why they suck. IMO, a subscription based model would be the only viable way: it's an optional subscription, that gives you mainly social benefits: icons, decorations for your page etc. furthermore, early access features would be accessible to subscribers only. (yes, X has a similar subscription model, but it barely focuses on social status benefits; having played MMOs, I must say that humans are ready to spend big sums of money for social status items, even if it's just 'pixels on a screen'; however, a simple blue badge is OFC not enough to make someone spend big bucks.

> so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool

yes or actually working 'less like this' 'more like this' which does not care about following or not, but only about whatever this is about.

perhaps leaving hints to stuff i Really Do Not want (always a stronger emotion than do want), for instance politics and parenting; no matter how interesting the OPs are, I care so absolutely nothing about these things, I will unfollow. And that is a shame.