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Comment by nancyp | Hacker News Reader

Why pay $6/month for blogging when there are so many free options?

1 of your 50 blog posts 0 of your 3 pages

Subscribe to Pika Pro to unlock:

    Unlimited blog posts
    Unlimited pages
    Hosting your Pika blog on your domain
    The option to hide the Pika brand on your blog

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I pay for email, and blog hosting, and a fair few software subscriptions because:

- I want companies to be able to pay their employees and continue offering the service I enjoy

- I want to not feel like a burden if/when I do need support

- I want to not be the product sold to advertisers

I have an iPhone app that I depend on for one of my hobbies, but because they never successfully monetized it, it’s abandonware, and I have to just hope that Apple never breaks it with an OS upgrade.

Hear, hear! We greatly dislike the ad model and greatly dislike the data-mining model. Let's normalize paying for a thing that you enjoy, as well as companies going for self-sustaining rather than giant exits.

And if you have the technical know-how and time budget, by all means set up your own OSS blog on a server and enjoy!

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