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In September, the Liberal party of Canada introduced a bill meant to raise the portion of capital gains on which companies pay tax to two-thirds from one-half. The policy would als…

Does anyone know the numbers in layman's terms regarding the demand for compute and what our systems/chips are able to reasonably process with this new tech? I'm curious if the tec…

I think the issue with Patreon, and a lot of similar services is that they are too focused on the "creator > consumer" relationship. I think the biggest value that a content creato…

Part of the reason Discord falls short as a social platform is that each community is siloed off from the rest. There is no continuity bridging the overarching platform and userbas…

I think what's equally as important as the archiving is the aggregating of the information. It's one thing to have a story, or piece of content documented somewhere, but at the end…

This law is a link tax. It means the government wants Meta and Google to pay every single time a link to a Canadian news source is shared on their platform (from what I understand,…

People in support of this need to consider how this type of legislation affects the integrity of the internet. This bill is not about supporting independent media like they claim. …

Oh I think it might be to do with the capitalization. We will add a fix. Thanks for bringing this up

I'm not sure the wedge created between many of the communities and the platform is repairable at this stage without extended displays of good will from Reddit's side. Lots of commu…

Do you mean like example@something.me? I just tried and that seems to work

Appreciate the feedback!

> In fact, some of the communities that closed down in response to the API changes explicitly shifted to Discord. While Discord does some things right in the community platform spa…

Reddit's disregard for the stewards and curators from which it derives its value from was strange to see. It doesn't seem wise for them to go to war with the people creating and ma…

Appreciate the discussion!

It's certainly our intention to make the platform work with relying on outside funding as little as possible. Ideally we will be able to get the platform to being profitable withou…

Hey, thanks for checking out the platform. As I mentioned in the attached article, we actually do have a monetization strategy in place outside of relying on advertisements and VC …

Hey HN. We've been working on a community platform/Reddit alternative with a focus on building a place for people to create communities instead of just buckets of posts. We want co…

> My ideal situation would be that mods and content creators get paid from the reddit awards I've been working on a community platform/Reddit alternative that has a business model …

This does seem to be a major concern

I'm not sure the wedge created between the communities and the platform is repairable at this stage without extended displays of good will from Reddit's side. Lots of communities h…

> Reddit uses 100% volunteer work and the entirety of the Reddit content moderation structure is Volunteer Perhaps this is a fundamental flaw with the platform. I see no reason why…

I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid taking the best features of each platform an…