Bluesky, a competitor to Elon Musk’s X, is working on offering paid features to users as part of a subscription package. The social networking startup recently published a user interface mockup of its subscription service called Bluesky+ on its GitHub page.
Based on the mockup, a Bluesky+ subscription will cost users $8 per month or $72 every year. However, these prices are not final. Dan Abramov, a software engineer at the company, cautioned users that the list of features seen in the UI mockup are tentative as well. “Some of these are likely to make it, but please don’t take this as an actual list of planned features […] We’ll announce the actual list when more work is done,” he said in response to a Bluesky post.
Bluesky, founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019, had announced plans on implementing a subscription model to serve as a new revenue stream in October this year. That same month, the decentralised social media app closed its Series A funding round at $15 million in addition to the $8 million seed capital received last year.
Currently, users who sign up on Bluesky are required to verify their email addresses as part of the platform’s security controls. In order to address concerns around impersonation, the platform updated its policy last month to state that “impersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.”
