I’m a big fan of this optional Pro subscription for one simple reason:

If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product

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We’re planning to launch a new, optional “Pro” protocol subscription

1. At launch, subscribers will have a Pro badge on their profile

2. Subscription will be onchain and part of the protocol. 100% of the proceeds go to casters / developers in weekly rewards. This in addition to the existing $25K+ a week in rewards. 

3. Planning to add longer casts (10K characters) and up to 4 images per cast for pro subscribers (needs a protocol change). Additional features over time.

4. $120 a year / $10 a month 
Why are we doing this?

- The protocol needs to find long-term revenue source that can continue fund caster and developer rewards beyond any one company.  
- We originally thought storage fees could be that, but we’ve realized that storage fees should be essentialy free to help growth. 
- So we’re trying an opt-in pro subscription as another model

Why now?

- Figuring out a long-term revenue model that works will allow us to double down on investing in growth

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Referencing this 

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x172f5081

the product you're using is warpcast though and afaik it won't see any of the subscription revenue

I like the idea but wish the feature set weren’t an uncritical clone of X. Longer casts are good but at 10k, you’re encouraging cannibalization of more thoughtfully composed longform. Just add a newsletter feature with a full editor and archival pub support if you want to go there. They can still be casts, but elevate it. Promote thoughtful writing not Bill Ackman type rants. If you must copy, copy substack, not X.

I’d also recommend looking for at least 20% differentiated media experience that’s not related to the wallet. Probably something with AI. But again don’t copy grok style integration. It’s terrible. Maybe more like cursor etc? A “stream IDE”? Solve threading with AI? I mean, break some interesting new ground.

Most feedback i've seen has been neutral or maybe slightly positive 

One of the stronger bits of feedback I've seen is from @vgr who has pushed for something more akin to substack vs twitter in terms of the 10k character casts which is a good point imo 

I'm interested to see how they iterate on this and provide more benefits to the pro subscription over time

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Most feedback i've seen has been neutral or maybe slightly positive 

One of the stronger bits of feedback I've seen is from @vgr who has pushed for something more akin to substack vs twitter in terms of the 10k character casts which is a good point imo 

I'm interested to see how they iterate on this and provide more benefits to the pro subscription over time 

https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x0b288f30

Have you seen a lot of negative sentiment or mostly positive?

You can already use @gif easily with cast actions

Really hoping for GIPHY usage like with supercast 

Need to bring Quack and Lola back to Farcaster replies

Fully agreed for Farcaster the client. And this feels like a client subscription (a la X).

The "protocol" already has fees (even if they aren't actually directed to the cost of running the protocol).

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@adrienne and Nounish were just talking about this on /gmfarcaster I think you should watch

Pro subscription worth it: You're not the product

That hits differently 
“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product “