EVERY FIGURE IS THEIRS, NOT OURS
What are you worth to them?
Nothing here is modelled or estimated. Every rate below is published by the company that charges it, linked to the filing or the fee schedule it comes from. Put in your own numbers and see what a year costs you.
Which of these do you actually use?
EVERY YEAR, FROM YOU
$8.1K
- you hand over in fees
- $8.0K
- they earn from your attention
- $57
- kept, of every $100 you moved
- $20.00
You moved $40K through them over a year and they kept $8.0K of it. Figures are US dollars, because every source reports in US dollars; converting would add the only unsourced number on the page.
Where it goes, and who says so.
- The social feedFacebook · Instagram$57
Meta earned this much per person across its apps in 2025. You were not paid any of it, and it is not what you cost — it is what you were worth.
- The freelance marketplaceFiverr · Upwork$8.0Klowest published tier $4.0K
Fiverr keeps a flat 20% of seller earnings, with no tiers. Upwork charges 0–15% depending on billing history with that client; around 10% is typical.
THE PART WITH NO INVOICE
And this is what you traded for it.
The money is only the visible half. You also gave up the right to see how the thing works, how it is run, what rules it uses, and what it does with your data and your content. That half never appears on a statement.
- Can you see the rules that rank you?BARELY
Since the Digital Services Act, the largest platforms must describe the main parameters of their recommender systems in their terms. A description is not the system: you cannot inspect it, reproduce a decision, or tell whether it changed last night.
The ranking rules are source, published, and changed by a vote with a receipt.
- Can you take your audience with you?NO
Data portability under the GDPR gives you a copy of your data. It does not give you the people. Your followers, your reviews and your standing stay behind, and rebuilding them is the reason leaving costs more than it looks.
Nobody leaves first. A threshold moves the audience together or nothing moves at all.
- Can you appeal a decision to someone who is not them?BARELY
The DSA created out-of-court dispute settlement in the EU for content decisions. It does not cover being deranked, demonetised, or quietly shown to fewer people — the decisions that actually change what you earn.
A published process, a named human, and dissent recorded in the log whether it wins or not.
- Can you vote on a fee or a rule change?NO
Facebook once let you, and then stopped. From 2009 its site governance vote was binding if 30% of users took part. In the final vote, in December 2012, 88% of the 668,500 people who voted opposed the changes — but that was 0.07% of users, the threshold failed, the changes passed, and one of them abolished the vote. No platform on this list has offered one since.
One member, one vote, on the fee and on the rule — with a quorum that can actually be met, because a threshold nobody can reach is a polite way of saying no.
TechCrunch, final Facebook site governance vote result ↗December 2012
- Do you share in the value you create?NO
The revenue your attention generates is not shared, and where a creator split exists the percentage is set unilaterally by the platform and can be revised without your agreement.
Undecided, on purpose. The first 100,000 members decide it, and may decide there is no share at all.
None of this is a bill you agreed to.
Every rate here is published by the company that charges it. None of them were voted on by the people who pay them, and none of them can be. That is the only thing OURS is trying to change — not by asking anyone to leave alone, but by moving together or not at all.
NOT DECIDED BY USWhat a member-owned version would charge is undecided. The first 100,000 members decide it, and may decide there is nothing to charge. Nothing here promises anyone a payment.
The link carries your numbers, so whoever opens it sees what you saw. Nothing you type here is sent to OURS or to anyone else.