I’ve been looking for a decent alternative to Quora. Maybe this fits the bill?
Are there other alternatives to Quora in other languages or geographies?
Zhihu is popular in China.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not trying to be aggressive but I'm guessing that you use an adblocker to browse the internet? I'm guessing that you believe content on the internet should be universally free (and contributors unpaid). Quick aside: even if you don't believe creators should be paid for their work, how do you propose that server / infrastructure costs are covered? It's a philosophy I (sort of) understand but surely it's up to the crea…
People will create content for free. Places like wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, whatever prove that. Some people like to get upvotes or likes, others just like to take a topic and expound on it a bit and see how people react. Some people probably have other motivations. Adding money to it commercializes things. Changes incentive. People start working to earn money rather than for the joy of contributing…
>Imagine reddit where the goal was to earn upvotes. That would look a lot like spamming low effort memes. Maximum possible return for effort. If your upvotes are money, I think that's what you'll tend to get.
You basically described reddit as it is today.
On hypothetical crypto-reddit, on the other hand, spamming low-effort memes to farm hypothetical karma-coins would cause inflation; and if hypothetical crypto-reddit failed to combat spam, that would debase its currency in comparison with competing platforms, causing people to preferably post elsewhere.
Oh, and admins tampering with posts wouldn't be a thing, because they wouldn't own the only copy of the database.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not trying to be aggressive but I'm guessing that you use an adblocker to browse the internet? I'm guessing that you believe content on the internet should be universally free (and contributors unpaid). Quick aside: even if you don't believe creators should be paid for their work, how do you propose that server / infrastructure costs are covered? It's a philosophy I (sort of) understand but surely it's up to the crea…
People will create content for free. Places like wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, whatever prove that. Some people like to get upvotes or likes, others just like to take a topic and expound on it a bit and see how people react. Some people probably have other motivations. Adding money to it commercializes things. Changes incentive. People start working to earn money rather than for the joy of contributing…
Adding tokens isn't just about money -- it provides a lot of features that simple money doesn't.
For example, each token may have voting power, allowing users (and more so power users) to have a say in the decision making of the product. Holding tokens (versus selling them) could also come with extra VIP privileges (similar to a rewards system). The point is to reward users for providing content, not just in money but also a say in the platform.
I agree with you that people will create content for free. But I think there is still a massive audience that could provide great content thats left out on the sidelines because there is no other motivation.
Why is youtube so much bigger than reddit? Youtube is literally an ecosystem -- where successful youtuber's have set up great partnerships outside of youtube due to their content. Individuals have built a career on youtube, something not possible on a free model like reddit.
"Partly this is not good - lots of content on YouTube for example is kind of cookie cutter attention getting spam type stuff. --> there may be ways to combat this, if the algo deciding how to distribute MU tokens is efficient. But if not, and this is the trade-off in building a massive community like Youtube that provides insane amount of knowledge to the world, then is worth it (imo).
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Hey, founder/dev here! We will be fully open-source very soon. Our blockchain is forked from another which is open-source. The blockchain is a model in which there are nodes that are elected/voted in by the community. They are responsible for the validation/consensus of blocks getting produced. Whenever you post a question, an answer, or an upvote, the request goes straight from the browser to the blockchain, and you…
Wouldn't it be simpler to just store everything on your own and let events ( eg. In DDD applications) just write to the blockchain? Instead of threathing the blockchain as source of truth?
Well, the important thing is just that requests get sent directly from the browser to the blockchain. If it goes through our servers, it creates a layer of centralization. We do pretty much just store things on our own. When you create a post, it goes out both to our database and the blockchain independently. But I feel that the blockchain should be the source of truth if it's going to be decentralized.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not trying to be aggressive but I'm guessing that you use an adblocker to browse the internet? I'm guessing that you believe content on the internet should be universally free (and contributors unpaid). Quick aside: even if you don't believe creators should be paid for their work, how do you propose that server / infrastructure costs are covered? It's a philosophy I (sort of) understand but surely it's up to the crea…
People will create content for free. Places like wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, whatever prove that. Some people like to get upvotes or likes, others just like to take a topic and expound on it a bit and see how people react. Some people probably have other motivations. Adding money to it commercializes things. Changes incentive. People start working to earn money rather than for the joy of contributing…
Alot of these projects are having a harder time attracting valid input
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#26Looks very similar to Product Hunt's design.