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Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by fazkan »

yafujifide wrote: post #23

Hey everyone, Ryan X. Charles here, Cofounder & CEO of Yours. Happy to answer any questions.

If you consider your system as a gamified version of online posting sites. From what I have read and from my experience people will always try to game such a system. I am sure you have thought about this, just want to read your thoughts on this.

For example, and someone did mention it in the comments below, if I write a script to analyze the kind of content that gets most votes and simply bet on those to maximize the cash earned. Then this will introduce a perpetual loop of content.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by madshiva »

coldtea wrote: post #108
madshiva wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still think that the information is not well organize. I prefer goes to a standard forum of the 90' to share things. For what I see on Facebook or social network is : - look at me - post without arguing or even answer, discussion. - look at me - stalking - quote about life - game - cat meme 0% construction, information is not well organize, scrolling..

Apparently for the majority of people "look at me - post without arguing or even answer, discussion. - look at me - stalking - quote about life - game - cat meme" are just the ticket!

I understand for Facebook that is better that we pay for that they don't sell our data, but I don't understand why we need to paid to post, voting. This make me feel bad. Only rich will post, vote, terrible idea. You even can't down vote. Then why don't allow down vote, or remove for 1000$? You even can have better control of the information. Welcome internet for rich only.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by cabalamat »

mollusk wrote: post #99
alexanderdmitri wrote: post #66

As an American kid born along with the digital epoch of the 90s, I'm a bit of an oddity because the only social media I've ever used (& still use) is LinkedIn, which feels like sharing a room with a vipor. I have it set up with a dedicated email address and I only interact w/it in a sandboxed browser on VPN with a dedicated email address. (I guess you could add HN, StackExchange and GitHub to the list since there are…

>And they are not helping your damn social life! First of all, I use Facebook in a similar way (dedicated email, sandboxed browser, external tracking disabled (I know it still tracks me internally), not entirely my real name, no mobile apps, all paranoia privacy settings on, don't really share anything). And I only signed up there a year or two ago. But Facebook absolutely helped my social (and even professional) lif…

> Now, LinkedIn I detest even more, thanks to the unsolicited invites from strangers that I get to my private email, even though I haven't even registered there, and I have no intention of doing so.

I stopped getting spam email from LinkedIn after I set up an account (which I never use).

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by camus2 »

olegkikin wrote: post #109
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.

My mind was recently blown by how much people tip on gamer streams. I was watching Shroud play PUBG, he suddenly gets tipped $550, doesn't even acknowledge it. Apparently $10-20K tips happen quite often: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/231p6e/sum... So yeah, if you're entertaining enough, people will throw money at you.

> So yeah, if you're entertaining enough, people will throw money at you.

Which was a well known fact since the beginning of strip clubs... Twitch and co are no different from sexcams.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by twelvedogs »

Kiro wrote: post #76
alexanderdmitri wrote: post #66

As an American kid born along with the digital epoch of the 90s, I'm a bit of an oddity because the only social media I've ever used (& still use) is LinkedIn, which feels like sharing a room with a vipor. I have it set up with a dedicated email address and I only interact w/it in a sandboxed browser on VPN with a dedicated email address. (I guess you could add HN, StackExchange and GitHub to the list since there are…

> And they are not helping your damn social life! How do you know if you haven't even used them? Facebook is completely instrumental to my social life and I'm very happy with it. Also, what do you mean with "more direct means"? Is Facebook Messenger not direct enough?

facebook messenger is fine, but it's exactly the same as any other messenger/texting.

facebook itself is a different beast, aside from the event planning stuff it's pretty much just a bunch of "look at what people you vaguely know are doing" for me

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by pjc50 »

coldtea wrote: post #107
mollusk wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>And they are not helping your damn social life! First of all, I use Facebook in a similar way (dedicated email, sandboxed browser, external tracking disabled (I know it still tracks me internally), not entirely my real name, no mobile apps, all paranoia privacy settings on, don't really share anything). And I only signed up there a year or two ago. But Facebook absolutely helped my social (and even professional) lif…

> Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. It's 2017. Between aggregators, dedicated sites, instant notifications, apps, Calendar sync et all, we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups. I don't think 60s', 70s and 80s culture and art events (and event goers) suffered because they didn't have…

> we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups.

Yes, that's part of the problem. That's part of why so many people prefer to have one way of keeping up, and choose Facebook for it by default because that's what "everyone else" uses.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by folksinger »

I've been telling anyone who will listen that we need a public social media platform funded by just such a mechanism, akin to similar institutions like copyright registration and the postal service.

Innovation could occur on top of what is a very simple data model and doesn't need the free market to stay relevant.

Our public institutions are what we make of them. If we despise and distrust them they will wither and die. If we encourage and support them they will flourish and we will all prosper together.

No man is an island!

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