Totally, freemium works when you have features or utilities people want. But if the base use case is social media it’s harder to provide a value add layer to “talk with other people on the internet”
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If I were Facebook, I'd charge for custom URLs ... fb.com/username or username.fb.com ... 11 bucks a year
Facebook is a graveyard of abandoned profiles, as are Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
Absolutely, people will pay for some combo of personalization, vanity, scarcity etc… Gaming has proven this.
This is also why I think the number one value prop for nostr is that you own your identity. All the time and money you spend on making it yours belongs to you.
Value add services on top of this might disappear, but your profile still belongs to you.
I pay for domains, so why not social media URLs? People just fekkin squat on all the good ones
This… and I’d pay a fortune for threading that works across clients 😂
I have been yapping since morning that being able to use self-custody identity with the upcoming Damus Suite (email, calendar, drive etc) will be a huge hit