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Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by hombre_fatal »

ryanmercer wrote: post #153
garmaine wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lucky you. In the US it is $119/yr.

Gotta be smart, I think Amazon technically paid me to have prime one year and this year I've negatived a good chunk of it. Any time they have the 1$ digital credit for delay shipping I select it which then subsidizes a good chunk of my eBook purchases. I think I've had 4$ in credit just this week and have another 1$ I'll get whenever the 5$ shoehorn I ordered yesterday ships.

This post shows how smart Amazon's Prime strategy is. We have someone probably spending thousands of dollars with Amazon (and Amazon taking a good chunk of that in commission) bragging about getting some free ebooks.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by fittslickare »

pmoriarty wrote: post #156

I always shake my head when Jimmy Wales is given so much credit for founding Wikipedia, while what he did was supply the money for it from the profit he made off his soft-core porn business, while Larry Sanger (who deserves most of the credit, including coming up with the name Wikipedia, with Wikipedia's most distinctive feature -- the so-called Neutral Point of View, and with managing the site itself) is virtually f…

He did something. He is doing something now.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by djsumdog »

booleandilemma wrote: post #121
zozbot234 wrote: post #105

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> showed the price to jump the waitlist ... as $12.99 a month or $100 a year. Yeah, not a big fan of this. You could buy very nice cloud hosting for $12.99 a month, and run your own instance of a federated social network like Mastodon.

Yeah, my parents are totally going to do that.

You could stand one up and your parents join it? Yes, not everyone can stand up their own self hosted stuff. In fact few of us can. There's a huge missing gap between your phone/desktop applications and just installing and running hosted applications, but I digress.

I stood up a Mastodon instance and invited a bunch of my friends. Only like 3 of us use it, but it's up and connected to the greater Fediverse.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by eigenvalue »

pmoriarty wrote: post #156

I always shake my head when Jimmy Wales is given so much credit for founding Wikipedia, while what he did was supply the money for it from the profit he made off his soft-core porn business, while Larry Sanger (who deserves most of the credit, including coming up with the name Wikipedia, with Wikipedia's most distinctive feature -- the so-called Neutral Point of View, and with managing the site itself) is virtually f…

History is written by the victors, and unfortunately Sanger decided to instead focus on Nupedia, which was more focused on "experts" writing the articles. Ultimately it seems that Sanger didn't truly believe in the core underlying idea of Wikipedia, which is that allowing anyone to write/edit without any reputation or credentials (or even an account!) eventually leads to a good outcome. It's counter-intuitive to some degree that the noise of allowing the "unwashed masses" to contribute is outweighed by the ease of attracting new contributors combined with the decentralized, crowd-sourced corrections of the community.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by soapboxrocket »

pmoriarty wrote: post #156

I always shake my head when Jimmy Wales is given so much credit for founding Wikipedia, while what he did was supply the money for it from the profit he made off his soft-core porn business, while Larry Sanger (who deserves most of the credit, including coming up with the name Wikipedia, with Wikipedia's most distinctive feature -- the so-called Neutral Point of View, and with managing the site itself) is virtually f…

This isn't really any different than most cases. Think Elon Musk started Tesla or SpaceX? Nope, he bought in just like Jimmy.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by leoh »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #158

Since the article apparently lacks a link to the actual social network site: https://wt.social The article says that it's not free and there's membership fee. I'm not against that, but it doesn't say that anywhere on the front page. Presumably they tell you that after you've submitted the form containing your personal information. Kind of shady.

I signed up and it seems usable without payment. I wonder if it's region dependent.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by Someone1234 »

r00fus wrote: post #108
Someone1234 wrote: post #47

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That's how the US Government defines it. If you want a US Visa you need to tell them your HK account.

Do you have a cite for this?

PDF: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by tills13 »

fittslickare wrote: post #162
pmoriarty wrote: post #156

I always shake my head when Jimmy Wales is given so much credit for founding Wikipedia, while what he did was supply the money for it from the profit he made off his soft-core porn business, while Larry Sanger (who deserves most of the credit, including coming up with the name Wikipedia, with Wikipedia's most distinctive feature -- the so-called Neutral Point of View, and with managing the site itself) is virtually f…

He did something. He is doing something now.

Exactly. Why does it matter?

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by hombre_fatal »

booleandilemma wrote: post #121
zozbot234 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> showed the price to jump the waitlist ... as $12.99 a month or $100 a year. Yeah, not a big fan of this. You could buy very nice cloud hosting for $12.99 a month, and run your own instance of a federated social network like Mastodon.

Yeah, my parents are totally going to do that.

No need to go that far. Maybe one HNer even does that or even wants to do it.
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