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Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

#21

Post by microcolonel »

I encourage you all to check out Minds.

In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature called Wire) either generally or on a specific post. There is also an internal points system where you are compensated by interactions with your content. If you have enough points, they have a real monetary value.

Also, as an added bonus, the website and apps are open source, and actually function quite well. It overall has a Facebook sort of feel in terms of feature set; but with a model that seems less exploitative and more collaborative.

https://minds.com/

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by aaron-lebo »

microcolonel wrote: post #21

I encourage you all to check out Minds. In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature called Wire) either generally or on a specific post. There is also an internal points system where you are compensated by interactions with your content. If you have enough points, they have a real monetary value. Also, as an added bonus, the website and apps ar…

That homepage looks like someone made a wordpress site for a megachurch. Gaudy as fuck. When service doesn't get design this early and instead just crams everything they can into a page, it's good sign they're lacking taste, and that's something that can't really be overcome. It's like they're so unsure about their own service that they feel they need to overcompensate by talking about all the features it has instead of just naturally showing them.

And points for hourly check ins? Modals reminding me to install apps when reading posts (got one when trying to read the terms of service, too)? In fact, you apparently can't visit the groups link without getting the pop up. I just want to try your damn site. Ugh. 18 MBs of content on load? Don't do that to the web.

Despite it's own limitations, Yours is lot, lot cleaner.

Compare: http://www.scientology.org/ (is that the same font in the header?)

After some more searching around, it's like the same audience repeated across all of these sites ("alt right" and cryptocurrency obsessed). Stefan Molyneux one of the main users of minds and also one of the first users of Yours? You guys are setting yourselves up for failure if you don't diversify your audience quick.

https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux

https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux

https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusatio...

Here's the third most followed user, "truth":

https://www.minds.com/truth

Complete with

"Antifa victim, Kiara Robles, speaks out about political violence in Berkeley."

"Hillary Clinton blames everyone from James Comey to Bernie Sanders for her blistering defeat to Donald Trump"

"Why Did World Trade Center Building 7 Fall? New Study Claims Gov’t Story Is False"

I hear r/conspiracy is nice this time of year, but there's not Bitcoin to be made if that gets big, yeah?

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

#24

Post by heroprotagonist »

I was intrigued, until I read that the payment system is in bitcoin cash. I've really lost interest in cryptocurrency over the past couple of years. I don't want to jump through the requisite hoops to manage another digital wallet just for the sake of engaging on an obscure platform that launched its beta 3 weeks ago.

I have nothing against the site, it's an interesting concept. But having to read about whatever recent bitcoin drama is going on to understand its hard forks and implications (BCC is a hard fork, right?), setup and manage a new wallet, take appropriate security precautions, etc, just to manage my site balance is a lot more burdensome than asking for ten cents to comment.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by yafujifide »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #24

I was intrigued, until I read that the payment system is in bitcoin cash. I've really lost interest in cryptocurrency over the past couple of years. I don't want to jump through the requisite hoops to manage another digital wallet just for the sake of engaging on an obscure platform that launched its beta 3 weeks ago. I have nothing against the site, it's an interesting concept. But having to read about whatever rece…

Don't worry about it - you can already cash in with any cryptocurrency using our Shapeshift integration. And soon we will have credit card onboarding so you don't have to worry about acquiring crypto at all :)

Note that our app has a built-in Bitcoin Cash wallet, but it works well enough that you don't necessarily realize you are using crypto :)

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

#26

Post by mrb »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #24

I was intrigued, until I read that the payment system is in bitcoin cash. I've really lost interest in cryptocurrency over the past couple of years. I don't want to jump through the requisite hoops to manage another digital wallet just for the sake of engaging on an obscure platform that launched its beta 3 weeks ago. I have nothing against the site, it's an interesting concept. But having to read about whatever rece…

Easiest solution: send BTC to https://shapeshift.io which they will convert to BCC and deposit it directly to whatever address needs to receive BCC. Shapeshift's main feature is to convert between cryptos with the minimum amount of hassle.

Edit: nevermind, I didn't know yours.org had shapeshift integrated.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by yafujifide »

tpeo wrote: post #10

Having some limit to posts is an interesting idea. But I don't see much of a return on investment for the users in this approach. Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead? Anyway, all of luck to them. I'd like to know what might develop from this. Though they really should have asked for two cents instead of ten. I mean, come on: how could you miss this?

Thanks very much for your input.

We're very focused on creating money-earning opportunities for our users. Every time you pay you should either get some thing out of it or have an opportunity to earn money.

For creators, if you write something worth paying, you can easily generate more than the 10¢ it costs to post. If you charge 10¢, you only need one payment to earn your money back :)

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by aaron-lebo »

yafujifide wrote: post #25
heroprotagonist wrote: post #24

I was intrigued, until I read that the payment system is in bitcoin cash. I've really lost interest in cryptocurrency over the past couple of years. I don't want to jump through the requisite hoops to manage another digital wallet just for the sake of engaging on an obscure platform that launched its beta 3 weeks ago. I have nothing against the site, it's an interesting concept. But having to read about whatever rece…

Don't worry about it - you can already cash in with any cryptocurrency using our Shapeshift integration. And soon we will have credit card onboarding so you don't have to worry about acquiring crypto at all :) Note that our app has a built-in Bitcoin Cash wallet, but it works well enough that you don't necessarily realize you are using crypto :)

How does credit card onboarding work? If someone buys content (not sure how this works) and then cashes out in Bitcoin, are you not a bank? Do you mind saying what regulatory hoops you've had to go through for this?

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by sayurichick »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #24

I was intrigued, until I read that the payment system is in bitcoin cash. I've really lost interest in cryptocurrency over the past couple of years. I don't want to jump through the requisite hoops to manage another digital wallet just for the sake of engaging on an obscure platform that launched its beta 3 weeks ago. I have nothing against the site, it's an interesting concept. But having to read about whatever rece…

you don't NEED to manage a new wallet.

you could create an account, post content, get paid, and technically pay for things by "cashing out" of "yours" to the receiving address for the thing you're trying to buy.

of course, there'll be a point where you DO want to load your account to be able to view content. That's likely in the long term when there are more users and higher quality content.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by yafujifide »

jpindar wrote: post #3

>People love to pay money to vote on things. Who would have thought? Anyone who's active in virtual worlds knows people love to buy content and tip creators and performers. >Why didn’t micropayments ever take off? No one ever tried. Except virtual worlds, which have whole economies based on micropayments.

This is a great point. But many of these services do not let you withdraw easily or at all. On Yours, you can cash out instantly. Even if the company goes away, you can export your keys and cash out even then :)
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