I will not be renewing ~startups, the cost is an orders of magnitude too big in any case, but even if it was much lower I don't have enough time to invest into managing a territory on a platform that I don't own where I have to pay a large sum for the privilege.

The incentives are misaligned imho, creating a territory should be much cheaper and preferably one-time, then when the site grows so do the revenues from territories. This way SN gets all the cash upfront while this is still being built out and totally experimental so all the risk is on the owners while they are paying a very large sum of sats for the privilege.

I like the idea of territories and it could be great over time but the cost and incentives mean that everything will be pushed into couple of big ones that could potentially survive on their own, meaning that either more niche things will go to another platform or pollute major territories.