I find the concept awesome so i joined it as 201 person i suppose. Here is an invitation link for you: https://wt.social/gi/tomasz-smykowski/work/buwn
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#252I checked it out by creating an account. It detected my country as India, and showed the price to jump the waitlist (currently at 60k) as $12.99 a month or $100 a year. Contrast this to (using current conversion rates from INR to USD): * Netflix here starts at $2.8 for the cheapest (mobile only, single screen) plan and has its highest plan (4K, four screens) at $11.2 a month. Netflix is considered so expensive that a…
My screen was showing that they $100/yr lets you and 200 of your friends jump the waitlist. If you max that out, 50 cents per person isn't so bad.
EDIT: I logged out and back in and it looks like it let me in without paying...
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#253Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…
I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases). Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be f…
Surely making text only instance (or network) of Mastodon wouldn't huge endeavor. Attracting people could be bigger challenge
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#254Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…
I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases). Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be f…
How will that be different from a messages or WhatsApp group?
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#255Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…
I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases). Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be f…
SMS?
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#256Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…
I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases). Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be f…
You can curate your reddit feed to include only text posts and links
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
My friends and I are currently building a donation platform for summer camp counselor alumni, church groups, etc. Basically small monthly reoccurring donations ($3-$20). We’ve been playing with the idea of having a social network aspect where to join you pick an organization to donate to and that’s your subscription for using the social network at large
$20/month?!? Forever?!?
To charity. That's $240 to charity a year. Is that so much to sacrifice?
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. Didn't WhatsApp used to be $1 a year before Facebook bought them and it was a very successful pricing model? $1 a year for a website is very feasible for both parties assuming it's some Western society.
Facebook pulls an average revenue of $70/year on each American user, so $1/mo is leaving a lot of money on the table by their standard
I don't think anyone expects this other option to be as profitable as facebook. If you actually managed to create something 1/7th the size/profitability of facebook and considered it a failure I guess I'd suggest you might legitimately suffer from visions of grandeur.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s essentially what a Mastadon instance is. If it’s hosted at home or on someone’s cloud account - the difference is only in connectivity speed. I’m extremely hopefully, perhaps naively, that a new internet isn’t going to be based on blockchain or owning data or any foundational change - it will be based on the ability for people to host their own server-side software again. The App Stores democratized client sid…
> What we need is a cloud platform that allows people to deploy code to computers on their home network, or any cloud, or any data center... one that encourages and assists with cloud native design and aims to reduce load rather than hope you architect incorrectly and happily charge for the waste. Sandstorm tried this, and they got very very far. I think it was ingenious, but the sysadmin in me was very skeptical abo…
We (Sandstorm) had an HA/scaling story, which we called "Blackrock"[0], and it was (and still is) the basis for the Sandstorm Oasis hosting service. I actually think we spent far too much time on that part too early. It turns out we could have operated Oasis by running regular single-machine Sandstorm on a beefy (though not that beefy) VM and been fine -- honestly, we would have had fewer outages and better performance. We probably should have spent our time making the platform work better for developers and end users instead, and built out the scalability later when customers really demanded it...
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
#260>We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.
Who will determine what a bad actor is and what criteria will be used. We have already seen the effect of people banned from sites for political and religious views, so do we really need another site that will just do the same?