Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

This will kill most of Facebook.

So many pages link out to other things, including major news sites.

This will either get reverted or Facebook will die. Mark's choice.

You either get stuck into facebook's tight grip on people's perpetual brain rot, or in google/apple's notification gardens. Welcome to the free and open internet.

In think in the future, they will charge users for posting anything more than x times a months.

Generating slop content is cheap now, but you need to store it and very few people will see it, so you can't show more ads.

Is Facebook even relevant anymore?

This is to get sites that monetize Facebook as a funnel to pay.

This is a bi-directional play. For the vast majority that dont, this is an attempt to get more content INSIDE the facebook ecosystem as a moat, and for those that need outside content links they will pay since its a organic premium conversion.

Not defending it, just explaining the logic and why it might work even if it seems superficially stupid.

I keep getting this feeling that we're in late-stage capitalism because of how all the oligarchs are maximizing extraction:

* Facebook with this and its new scraping rules for business accounts

* Turning Venezuela into a fiefdom

* Skydance merger

and on and on. But it's not late stage. It's just capitalism and we'll be reading about the same behavior 10 years from now.

Isn’t this good news? I imagine a lot of misinformation and phishing will become difficult.

this will just kill genuine posting, your favorite pages will stop sharing and your feed will drown in even more AI slop

I barely use fb as it is and this will just drive me off the platform entirely

This is last stage capitalism of these tech platforms.

Nothing much left to innovate.

late 2025: Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314668

They are in the squeezing what's left position for that platform. Young kids think of facebook like we think of myspace. Social media as a platform in fact may just be over. my kids don't really use social media, they use whatsapp/iphone groups.

in fact... maybe kids think of instagram as a boomer unc platform now too.

I could understand this for new pages, to crack down on spam, but for established pages? It makes no sense at all. As a cash grab, I get it, but it's not sustainable. Though maybe they are trying to crack down on pages taking over feeds, which I would support...but that would also require them cracking down on the AI slop pictures, etc in feeds.

dogshit platform.

World Wide Web, huh?

Those hyperlinks ain't free, you know.

So... what

We have the internet and that's not good enough

You already throttle posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719

You already act as a piss-poor communications medium https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712

Is "Metaverse" open web/open protocol? Or just yet another way for Zuckerberg to fuck people over?

Can we just stop using Facebook as a defacto business/organizational page? come on people. I've been login-gated from what should be public pages for the better part of a decade now.

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On Google's Youtube to post links (like in video descriptions, etc) you have to pay by adding sellable/monetarily valuable personally identifying information to your account like a phone number and ID. Otherwise even with a google account from 2006 in good standing you can't post links anymore. Attempts to edit old video descriptions with HTTP/S links (from before the policy) also don't work.

Seems like an anti spam measure. Bad actors ruin all features where links can be placed in front of eyes.