Well that didn’t take long. Looks like they’re going the discord route and locking uploads + basic customization behind a subscription. You know, because we don’t already have enough of those.
Bluesky is working on a premium subscription that will add features like higher-quality video uploads and some profile customization options.
Limiting the quality of uploads for non subscribers isn’t adding a feature.
Hosting images is not free though, and the cost of it scales with the quality of the images. People that host Mastodon also have to manage excessive disk space usage, and if you want to use more of it, compensating the entity that provides this storage, whether a company or a person, is not unreasonable.
I hope none of you ever complain about adblock because hosting isn’t free.
I would not complain. Things cost money. In other news, water is wet.
From what I understand, the quality of uploads is already limited presumably because they can’t afford better servers with no income.
Adding better quality uploads at a price is adding a feature, not degrading an existing one.