Earlier quoted context omitted.
The jokes practically write themselves...
Someone else was supposed to pick up the bandwidth tab.
I think there was a song about that.
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#12OP, if you're bootstrapping this thing at a tiny scale it looks like you've just been hit with the 'HN hug of death' as the wide readership of the website often yields a huge surge of incoming traffic to anything which lands on the front page. While someone else sorts this problem out (or you just wait for it to subside) perhaps you could explain the concept and goals here in the meantime. Don't feel bad, this happen…
Pre-rendering the landing page can help too.
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#13this is perhaps a more useful link, assuming it will load for you:
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#14OP, if you're bootstrapping this thing at a tiny scale it looks like you've just been hit with the 'HN hug of death' as the wide readership of the website often yields a huge surge of incoming traffic to anything which lands on the front page. While someone else sorts this problem out (or you just wait for it to subside) perhaps you could explain the concept and goals here in the meantime. Don't feel bad, this happen…
Thanks for this! This is a super small nights/weekends experiment with a dozen or so active users; I probably should have prepared for a spike, huh? I'll leave a top-level comment to summarize the thinking before I jump back over to keeping it alive . Thank you again.
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#15Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby!
In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another with clickbait or "lead-generation" (advertising for-profit stuff is strictly disallowed).
RE "socialism": this isn't intended to be socialism as a religion ~ more like, "the model we're working with right now is having some painful side-effects and maybe it's worth trying a hypermodern coop / WSDE model that addresses some of the root causes of these symptoms (data abuses, CCP exerting control over our information flow / free speech, cambridge analytics stuff, LGBTQ+/small creators struggling on YouTube, etc)" which happens to align with some socialist principles, from what I gather.
Here's the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/karmafm
This is very young and experimental, and so far there's only been a single distribution (a whopping $4 (post-fees) sent to a member from a $10 patron contribution) but the Patron contributions have since quadrupled to $40!
Forgive my brevity as I attempt to keep this thing breathing and thank you for taking a look.
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#16Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby! In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another…
Thanks for clarifying, it sounds more like you're talking about Voluntaryism and Libertarian ideas.
People paying an amount that they feel is fair vs prescribed is very forward thinking and I wish you luck!
PS: I'd avoid anything that actually returns funds since its likely to end up being called a Ponzi scheme...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going go comment "it doesnt work" but I didnt want people to think I was making fun of the political ideology instead of reiterating the website not working.
Keyboard Stalin once said -> "The loss of one click is tragic, but the loss of thousands is statistic."
hahahahaha stop distracting me with your wit
Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network
#18Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby! In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another…
Thanks for clarifying, it sounds more like you're talking about Voluntaryism and Libertarian ideas. People paying an amount that they feel is fair vs prescribed is very forward thinking and I wish you luck! PS: I'd avoid anything that actually returns funds since its likely to end up being called a Ponzi scheme...
Sure thing, thanks for taking an interest. And yeah, that sounds about right. Although my dream is to gradually push this into the hands of some kind of meritocratic collective ownership, where the "workers" own the "means of production", which in this case would be the students/activists being able to fork the data, app code, and devops for free at any time.
RE ponzi scheme... hmmm... so when a Patron makes a $10 contribution, they can then choose which user receives half of their contribution. I wonder how to prevent the perception from turning Ponzi with this model...
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#19Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby! In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another…
>RE "socialism": this isn't intended to be socialism as a religion
It was a poor choice of words to put it in the tagline then, for a number of reasons.
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#20Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby! In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another…
Just some feedback:
* Anything with a sign-up feature needs an elevator pitch somewhere on the homepage: "What" and "Why" for the layman, two short paragraphs but ideally a single-sentence elevator pitch.
* Eliminate the ideology, focus messaging on the value and support. "Socialist" is a very broad and burdened term.
* Explain how tf this is socially owned. All I see a dictator, however benevolent, and a very inefficient donation system.
* Player Guide is... bad. Super hand-wavy on the stuff that should be specific (community guidelines), lots of ideology, and straight up fluff. Write assuming every reader is blind and ADD - some of them are, and everyone else will benefit.