Founders

There are 3 business models for apps.

1. Free with ads
2. Subscription
3. Transaction fee

The common thread for all three models is the user—a person, business or AI—has money to spend. 

That’s obvious for 2 and 3 since the model involves spending money directly with the app.

But for 1, if your user base doesn’t have money to spend, the ability to monetize via ads will be low.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Which of these do Bluesky and Mastodon fall into? I think Bluesky will transition to 1 eventually as they stop relying on just VC money, but I don't know how to categorize Mastodon.

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NFTs since 1998.

Bitcoin since 1985.

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https://manifold.gallery/tomato

Bluesky (the company) has said subscriptions are planned. Would assume at some point they do ad-based tier.

ATProto doesn't have a business model as far as I'm aware