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Re: Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

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Post by WikipediasBad » Wed, Aug 09, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

hacalox wrote: post #428

WikipediasBad wrote: post #423

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Ya the idea itself would be so neat. In fact, a super meta way to do it is to have the campaign to build the platform be the first campaign on the MVP version of the platform itself! What better way to demonstrate your software patronage platform by using it to build said software patronage platform. I truly think a dedicated patreon for coders could really change the entire VC hypergrowth stress cycle that is Silico…

Absolutely. I thought about creating something similar to humble bundle, where you can pay as much as you want distributed as you want. Or creating a git tracker, a tool that tells you at the end of the month which packages and repos have you used /cloned more so it can distribute your monthly donation budget accordingly. The problem with this approach is that you are not giving any chance to all those people who are…

Ya, that's not a bad way to execute on the idea, however it does not perform one of Patreon's chief functions that make it so successful: discovery of projects on one, unified platform. Essentially the main setup that Patreon has over all the "tip jar" or decentralized methods that have been tried but never reached critical mass is that the entire patronage ecosystem has a home on the web rather than simply living inside everyone's browser extension or something. That's why a dedicated site for software patronage could really take off because so many open source projects and software ideas are floating around with really just donations or VCs as the only funding mechanism in the valley.

For sure! I will send you an email.

Re: Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, Aug 13, 2017, 4:34 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #341

toomuchtodo wrote: post #133

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> I'd argue that most of the peer pressure and social moors society (especially local society) pushes are typically a net negative, and as we grow globally, we're realizing that they don't usually make sense. It seems to me that Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat are causing extreme narcissism to embed itself in younger cohorts, along with workers being more mobile causing family units to fall apart. The shitty parts…

along with workers being more mobile causing family units to fall apart. "Millennials are moving significantly less than earlier generations of young adults." http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/13/americans-ar...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-many-times-the-avera...

Re: Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

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Post by Neeek » Mon, Aug 14, 2017, 12:59 AM UTC

hyperdunc wrote: post #426

Neeek wrote: post #421

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Does that change the fact without the NGO craft, people aboard the raft are at greater risk of drowning? All of this just sounds like justification for allowing people to drown. I'm sure there are better ways to prevent people smugglers than blockading the part of the operation that prevents human deaths.

The NGO boats can rescue the migrants and take them back to Libya instead of to Italy. Why aren't they doing that?

As I mentioned in another post, where they take the people they rescue really has nothing to do with Patreon's content policy.