Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?

The reason people are being so polarized and post misinformation, is that it benefits social medias by generating engagement, which is required for an advertisement based business model.

What would happen then in a fully subscription based social media ? I believe the answer is less incentive to promote meaningless content, less incentive to lock up people in what they already like, and just better content overall.

And this wouldn't have to be very expensive either... If we look at Twitter's average revenue per user (~$25/year), the monthly subscription would likely be less than $5.

So tell me, what do you think about it ? Is this something you would like to try out ?

Thanks, Paul