Come for the network, pay for the tool

Paid communities aren&#x27;t new. AOL was a paid community. Anyone remember Apple&#x27;s eWorld?<p>I&#x27;m not denying that the economics of the internet are evolving, it just irks me our industry comes full circle to the same stuff we hashed through decades ago and people act like it is a new phenomenon.

Apparently a “Bloomberg Hacker News clone” exists, according to this article. Does anyone have access to it? Is it good?

The author doesn&#x27;t seem to reference it but the title looks to be a riff on the 2015 article <i>&quot;Come for the tool, stay for the network&quot;</i>: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdixon.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdixon.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the...</a>

The example paid communities are trivial -- they&#x27;re hobbyist groups when contrasted against the social media companies this article is trying to compare against.<p>and it starts with quite an unsubstantiated claim &quot; and audiences are slowly but surely evacuating the big social media companies&quot;

- The Emergence of Paid Communities<p>- Paid Communities Are a New Business Model for Bespoke Social Media

Meanwhile, MetaFilter just turned 21 years old.