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netrau 2y ago

I did some math and thinking how expensive is to actually be on the internet if we don't want ads and our data to be used.

I read around 5, 7 papers regularly every month.

- new york times 0.5c/week

- economist 29eur/month

- wired ~$2.5 / month (i think)

- fortune 29.9

- the new stack (free? I guess)

- medium - 5 eur/month

Total: $820usd/year

Storage

- I use google as it's the most simple, reliable and complete 19.99month

Total: $239/year

Entertainment

- youtube video - $17.99/month

- netflix - $12.99/month

- prime - $4.99/month

And thang God for streamio with real-debrid plugin

Total: $431/year

Food

- glovo prime - $6.99/month - because they are assholes and add taxes to transportation, service (whatever the fuck that mean). Same goes to those dickheads from uber, airbnb, takeaway etc.

Total: $83.88/year

This does not include other profesional subscriptions I have:

InteliJ, todoist, etc let say an extra $300/year

So we are looking at around $1800, $1900 /year

I admit i don't pay for all the papers at the time. Mostl'y using free tier or pay for the one suits me well that month. But the rest. I kind need them because most of them they are forcing me to do so or i need them

This is not easy sum for most. And you don't get you money's worth. There are months when I don't open netflix or prime for example and not canceling subscription.

We need to bring back the pay per use.

#payperuse #payperservice #letsmakeitsimple

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Viktor Vsk 2y ago

Pay per use is very difficult to manage for tech companies.

When you buy a car for example, you are fine to wait couple of months until its delivered to you. You are fine to wait for guarantee service in queues. You are fine to pay for a lot of things that are not covered by service guarantee.

When netflix doesn’t work for couple of hours you think they are bustards who do nothing but seat on top of gold piles.

I think you understand it well, but most of the (paying) clients don’t

Pay per use is what we should have more. And this is a simple concept. But as usual “its very difficult to make things simple”. So we should work towards finding solutions to make it work

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netrau 2y ago

I mean all of these in one way or another. You are absolutly right in terms of revenue stream. I have a friend which is hairdresser and he is the best case for pay per use from business pov. This month you have 500customers, next you might have 20. What do you do?

But, I will pay one time 20c to have access to a news article for 24h, or for a movie, the same, say $1 or $2.

Or for a nostr service for example to generate me 100 PDFs, or a storage service to store me for a fixed amount of time some files, than to remove them no question asked.

I am not saying to remove subscription. But allow the user to pay par use too.

On digital you have time x resource = price/second (let's say)

You want sorage?

You want, say, compute power for whatever? Same time x (cpu freq + other)

You want a temporay chat?

All of these can be covered with pay per use first. I need more? Yeah, sure, make a sats deposit to the servuce and they will let you know when your credit is done.

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CensorThis 2y ago

Save yourself your brainpower and the money, cut out every one of those paid “news” sources.

They’re all propaganda.

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netrau 2y ago

Yeah, but some articles are interesting or worth reading. Again I don't pay for all :))

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CensorThis 2y ago

Yeah, perhaps.

Though, you’re feeding the propaganda machine when you do pay for them.

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netrau 2y ago

If you have other reliable sources do share.

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CensorThis 2y ago

Twitter for news, until they migrate to here.

12ft ladder to skip the paywalls

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the axiom 1y ago

this calculation is based on nothing and the results are arbitrary and stupid