Why Is Paid Social Media a Bad Idea?

Metadata

• Author: [[David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)]]
• Full Title: Why Is Paid Social Media a Bad Idea?
• URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-is-paid-social-media-a-bad-idea-623a9c76

Highlights

• Can you fund a social network with user payments? In contrast to the current established wisdom that only targeted ads will do it. We don’t know! Nobody has ever tried to do it at this scale. All the attempts have usually been baked in from the beginning, thus posing a real challenge to reaching critical mass. (View Highlight)