Different business models for social coop blog/blog platform cooperative. 4 simple examples.

1. Minimalist
Social coop hosts a simple platform without ads or membership fees. Donations pays for the maintenance with no other revenue. Bit like Social Coop Wiki.

2. Medium model of voluntary paywall
You can publish articles free or behind a paywall and can read X number of articles behind paywall a week for free.
To read unlimited number of articles behind paywall, pay a membership fee.

3. Crowdfunding.
* Keep-It-All
* All-Or-Nothing
* Patreon/OpenCollective type regular donations.

4. Advertising.
* Membership regulating the ads democratically.

* Showing ads only to non-members.
* Opt in system where the default option is not to show ads, but you can voluntarily turn them on and that way create revenue to the cooperative. Currently its opt-in, with adblocking the to opt-out option.

I would like to add and update a list of relevant ongoing or hopefully future projects members have in a list, in this OP:
* @jeffhardins idea for podcast on credit unions and cooperatives.
* Coop Watercooler blog archives, @matthewcropp is involved.
* @lehighcommunalist has written about social coop blog here and made a blog post about psychology of social media control here.
* I start a thread about social coop blog here and wrote a blogpost about cooperative banking here . The blog post is in a news site that is planning to transform to a co-operative but is not big enough for that to be relevant now, I commented on the project here.
* @robertbenjamin wrote about turning Medium into a platform cooperative.
* @twsh tooted "I'm very interested in the idea of collectively owning social media (among other things).
I'm a philosopher. My professional interests are philosophy of language and metaphysics."
* @erikmoeller5 started "constructive journalism" account in social coop.

I'll edit this original post and the poll as people add different options. Would hope that each different model could be explained in 1-2 sentences in a way that can non-tech people understand. As a non-tech person I'm sure there's lot of good stuff to add.

Posted more detailed personal thoughts on each of these things in a separate comment. Hopefully we can later have more sophisticated polling, making binding decisions which is not the purpose of this thread or poll.