Bluesky has revealed how it plans to start making money without necessarily having to rely on ads. The platform will remain free to use for everyone, though it’s working on a premium subscription that will provide access to profile customization tools (remember when Myspace offered that for free?) and higher quality video uploads.
One thing that you won’t get as a paid user, though, is any preferential treatment. Unlike certain other social platforms, Bluesky won’t boost the visibility of premium members’ posts. Nor will they get any kind of blue check, according to chief operating officer Rose Wang.
For now.
At this rate we will end up proving Jack Dorsey right when he left Bluesky.
But everything else is stupid
To be completely honest I think most sane people are going to be okay if bluesky ends up as even a slightly better version of what Twitter was.
Then there will be check marks for the accounts and priority in appearing in other users’ feeds.