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Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by flatline »

sneak wrote: post #88
flatline wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly what happened on steem.it, people just (re)-posted stuff like they do on reddit and made money from it with no attribution to the original author. I know they tried to crack down on this sort of thing but moderation is really labor intensive and difficult for other reasons too.

1) it's steemit.com 2) no we didn't; steemit is entirely unmoderated.

Thank you for the correction; I have never used the platform and misremebered several details from this post: https://steemit.com/steemitabuse/@masteryoda/why-i-removed-a...

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by tyrust »

camus2 wrote: post #114
olegkikin wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Twitch and co are no different from sexcams

Once you get past the fact that they are both livestreams the similarity ends. Twitch explicitly forbids sexual content [0]. There are some streamers that dress suggestively, but they're in the minority.

Your statement is not much different from calling YouTube no different from PornHub.

[0] - https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by Fjolsvith »

I read FAQ for Yours.org. The voting looks like a pyramid scheme:

>You can earn money by voting on good content. Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed evenly between all earlier voters. Yours Inc. always makes the first vote. You can vote on something as many times as you'd like. You will earn money if you vote on something popular early, because you will get money from all votes after you.[1]

1. https://www.yours.org/about/

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by krazypanda »

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…

Your username happens to be your real name.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by sgs1370 »

nicklo wrote: post #145
alexanderdmitri wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're missing my point. Google and Facebook are conditioning the population to say no big deal. It's creeping normalcy. Remember when Sergei was trying to make peeps comfortable with Gmail? [para-phrasing here:] "It's not a person reading your email, it's just a robot." Well now the robot is a neural net and I'm pretty convinced (if it's not already) that neural net will start feeding data to other nets buil…

Google no longer reads gmail emails: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-wi... Though I'm guessing that they are only now okay giving up on email data because they have so many other sources of tracking your behavior.

Google is no longer using email data for gmail ads. They might still use it for their google search ads or anything else they want.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by clewis »

dwild wrote: post #148
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…

> Believe me, people don't mind being in touch and coordinating through more direct means I feel like you are from an older generation, not that there's anything wrong with it, but you probably no longer have the same needs as the younger generation. When I organize stuff, I don't always do it between 1 or 2 people. Once we were a dozen that went to an Escape Room, even more people were interested and even more were…

What is the cost of the new framework versus the old?

I spend 0.0 hours per week on facebook, and 0.25 hours per week coordinating activities directly.

How much time do you spend on facebook?

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