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Interesting, thanks. I actually looked into $1 payments for an adjacent project and the costs are still prohibitive even today. Stripe fees cost something like 30-40% for a $1 paym…

Yeah, I figure that's the curse of any community gaining traction. I expect to have to turn off comments at some point...if that fails I'll just restrict registrations. In a worst-…

I will admit the 5 year timeframe is a bit arbitrary and may need to be adjusted. With that said, the goal is positively not to replicate HN with discussions of cutting-edge techno…

That's the point! But yes the 5 year timeframe is somewhat arbitrary and may need to be adjusted.

I always wait to watch TV shows and movies until the hype has blown over and people can actually tell me their honest thoughts...often in relation to other shows they've seen. Time…

Let's see. Not everything interesting I come across on the web is a good fit for HN, but when I see something that is, I post it here. I've found that (at least for me) once a comm…

Shoot sorry, I had closed registration while developing. It's open now!

FYI I'm about 5 days away from launching Hystoria, a link aggregator limited to items >5 years old. Idea is to beat hysteria with history. I contend that an unrelenting focus on "b…

Yup, thanks. Actually thanks for mentioning PayPal again...I had discounted them at first because of the 5% fee but didn't realize their lack of a huge flat add-on actually makes t…

I would like to experiment with micropayments for a service I run. I know most (all?) people have failed at this so far...but I still have hope, at least in my particular case. Any…

Matrix is a protocol. Riot is the old name of the flagship apps built on the Matrix protocol by the core team. Element is the new name.

> Except we have: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix . We have people working on it full time, and hopefully going to evolve into hybrid P2P/Client-Server …

How is Matrix not the solution it claims to be? What's not /actually/ decentralized about it? Keep in mind software of this kind doesn't just [poof] appear out of nowhere...it's ty…

Even this site seems to use WordPress and some other frameworks. So unnecessary...just need a simple static page. Oh and no HTTPS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What happens when Glenn fails to conform to Substack's standards? To my knowledge Substack hasn't censored yet, but it's inevitable. Glenn should just start his own site, in my opi…

I see this perspective posted a lot, and while I think it's generally true, it's a bit vague. What do we mean by writing better? If we're referring to an improved ability to articu…

"What we've institutionalized is run to failure: we'll just keep doing more of what's failed spectacularly until the entire status quo collapses in a fetid heap of greed, self-inte…

Yeah I came here to say the same. I'm about as tin-foil-paranoid-privacy-all-the-things as they come, but the "invasive" data mentioned in the post don't seem particularly invasive…

The legal entities can move to other jurisdictions, sure, but it doesn't matter because app distribution still occurs primarily through USA-based Google Play and USA-based Apple Ap…

Thanks for clarifying -- I've edited my comment to make that more clear. And thanks for your work on Zulip!

I've downloaded Manyverse from F-Droid so many times, hoping to finally use it for real...but I never could. I was particularly excited recently when an iOS app was released. If yo…

Open-core, or fully open-source with paid offerings (e.g. Zulip -- see tabbott's comment below [0]). Let the DIYers host their own instances, but offer support and/or on-premise de…

All great thoughts -- you sound like a generous guy :) > Those who can't do, teach I'm with you. I'd change that phrase to "Those who have done, should teach". Reminds me of an ide…

It can make sense. It's also better for longevity of the work. I'm surprised Jeff is offering his videos for free too though...that seems like a perfect candidate for a paywall to …

You and parent comment are both right, but it's interesting because I haven't heard this feedback before. Part of what makes these games so playable is that they're quick and don't…