I swear I still have no idea what app.net is.
> It is designed to be similar to Twitter, but have no advertising, instead relying on user and developer subscriptions. They began directly crowd funding it on July 13, 2012, with a goal of $500,000 and about 10,000 backers. [They] exceeded the goal by August 13th, raising at least $750,000 with over 11,000 backers. The service is currently in alpha.
ADN has made explicit promises to try to align their own incentives with those of both users and developers.
"Developers are free to monetize their applications through their own mechanisms; this program should be thought of as a “bonus” for building software that App.net members use and love."
So developers can add advertisements and now no advertising feature of app.net is void?
What you are saying is acceptable if users are allowed use those developed apps freely(without app.net membership)but here first we need membership to access these apps!
This is akin to saying that Windows 8 is filled with advertisements because the Music and Video apps link to the appropriate store frontends.