Sub.club, which lets Fediverse creators provide paid subscriptions and premium content and launched in late August, is already shutting down. The Sub.Club team said, “Regrettably, we will be closing this project in the next few weeks.” announced last weekCreators using the service will be “paid in full”, but sub.club feeds will stop working “by the end of January”.
as i wrote when I covered sub.club firstThis service seemed like an interesting way for people to get involved Fediverse Monetize your audience more easily without pointing them to other platforms like Patreon. But the group that created it, The BLVD, has run out of funding.
“Unfortunately we were not able to gain traction quickly enough with product-market fit/adoption Sub.ClubOr to attract investors, partnerships, etc.,” explains Bart Decrem, founder of BLVD. The Verge In an email. He says that more than 150 creators were in Sab.Club. “There is still bullishness on FedVirus, and Bluesky's success is a big deal, but it seems like it will take a while for all the pieces to connect.”
“As we see more users on platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads and the open ecosystem grows, there will eventually arise a need for a subscription service that is not tied to a single platform, is protocol-based, and user-friendly. Allows portability,” says Anuj Ahuja, consultant, Sab.Club. “Hopefully, Sub.Club, or a service like it, can fill that gap.”
This is due to BLVD's lack of funding. pull the plug Also on two other projects: Mammoth, an open-source iOS app for Mastodon, and moth.social, a Mastodon instance that is Mammoth's companion server. In late November, Mammoth Mastodon account said so Mammoth was “now operating without funding or a paid team.”