Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou do that and the prices will just keep going up. See Netflix/streaming as an example. Enough $ is never enough. Line must go up.
Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou do that and the prices will just keep going up. See Netflix/streaming as an example. Enough $ is never enough. Line must go up.
Auth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
First of all, prices already go up for things like netflix. This isnt aimed at subscription sites like netflix its more for pages where you browse for free at the cost of viewing ads like blogs, youtube, substack, lemmy etc. Yes prices would go up over time no doubt but the idea is that the users providing the money should lower the cost. 1000 humans visting your site should be willing to pay more than an advertiser is to show an ad to those 1000 people. Google generally pays around 5cents to 30cents for 1000 views. I dont know about you but I can split 30 cents between 1000 people, hell i’ll even double it cause im generous. I think if 1000 people are viewing your website you should get paid for providing something interesting enough for 1000 people to enjoy. If everyone gave 1cent thats $100, if everyone paid double what the ad was they’d be paying $0.0003 each.
I dont want people who write a blog that is read by many people to need to subject their readers to ads all only to get a check from google saying heres a few cents bud. We can do better, and I dont think the answer is asking people to pay a $5 a month.