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Re: Inside a viral website

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Post by jrochkind1 »

redisman wrote: post #214
erik_seaberg wrote: post #198

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A pyramid scheme pays out fake returns that were actually new investments, which requires unsustainable geometric growth. An asset bubble doesn’t depend on fraud or growth, it just keeps going until speculators’ confidence is shaken.

A pyramid is a more psychologically powerful scam as many people actually get big returns and become true believers. Made up assets are more akin to the tulip mania and such.

Many people actually get big returns from tulipmania and such too!

Re: Inside a viral website

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Post by selcuka »

zepearl wrote: post #201
ryantgtg wrote: post #155

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Have you tried Patreon? I had the same experience with a donation button. But a Patreon button magically gave us steady money to support infrastructure.

Yeah, as a (small/tiny) donator for 3 projects so far I personally liked Patreon - neat, simple, it works. There are 3 other projects to which I'd like as well to donate something but they're all using different services ( https://donorbox.org , https://ko-fi.com , https://liberapay.com ) => I don't want to lose control over my donations and creating accounts there as well would have that effect on me. Therefore, I t…

What we need now is a donation service aggregator.

Any donations for this idea?

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Post by ryantgtg »

selcuka wrote: post #262
zepearl wrote: post #201

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Yeah, as a (small/tiny) donator for 3 projects so far I personally liked Patreon - neat, simple, it works. There are 3 other projects to which I'd like as well to donate something but they're all using different services ( https://donorbox.org , https://ko-fi.com , https://liberapay.com ) => I don't want to lose control over my donations and creating accounts there as well would have that effect on me. Therefore, I t…

What we need now is a donation service aggregator. Any donations for this idea?

Take my dollar!

Seems like linktr.ee does a good job of aggregating links. So, the "donate" link could link to that, which then displays a bunch of options. However, I believe that a familiar icon - like the patreon icon - helps people make decisions.

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Post by swrj »

rainonmoon wrote: post #247
DangerousPie wrote: post #101

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But is it worth the trouble for a meme site that won’t be relevant in a week? There are probably more fun things to do with your time.

He minted the site as an NFT. Dude had time.

I would guess that minting a site as a NFT on OpenSea takes a whole lot less time than making that change. As for if it's more fun - that's debatable...

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Post by PeterisP »

giantrobot wrote: post #234
LockAndLol wrote: post #230

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Don't call them donations. Look at what reddit did: people can "give gold" to people for comments that they think were great. All it does is add some icon to a comment and put the person in a "gold club". In games, people will buy so many visual improvements that add nothing but glam to their character. Discord does... something, I can't remember what exactly, with their "turbo" and IIRC it costs discord cents, but t…

Back in the stone ages Slashdot gave subscribers a comment bonus and an indication the user was a subscriber. An icon in the forums or some small benefit for "subscribing" goes a long way to get people to fork over a few dollars for something.

Lichess is a good example - their "subscription" gives a cool Patron icon wherever your user name is listed (usually the icon is just a circle that's filled if you're online), and that's it.

Re: Inside a viral website

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Post by briefcomment »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #55

One thing I don't understand about monetizing on the Internet. I see the author considered ads, tried an affiliate scheme and even did an NFT. But what about plain old, honest to God payment? Couldn't they just put a paragraph of text on the site, "Hey folks, I'm worried about hosting costs, if you find this page useful, please [Donate]", with a button redirecting to Paypal or Stripe or whatever, collect the money an…

Remember that McDonalds ice cream machine status site[1]? The guy has a buy me a coffee link right up top. I think he gets a solid stream of donations. I remember dozens per day a couple months ago.

[1]https://mcbroken.com

Re: Inside a viral website

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Post by [deleted] »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #55

One thing I don't understand about monetizing on the Internet. I see the author considered ads, tried an affiliate scheme and even did an NFT. But what about plain old, honest to God payment? Couldn't they just put a paragraph of text on the site, "Hey folks, I'm worried about hosting costs, if you find this page useful, please [Donate]", with a button redirecting to Paypal or Stripe or whatever, collect the money an…

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Re: Inside a viral website

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Post by O_o_O_o_0 »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #238

Regarding the Amazon affiliate marketing bit: I am surprised he didn’t make at least an order of magnitude more money from the clicks. I ran a site that was popular on a niche subreddit in 2013-2014 which had Amazon affiliate links. On the very first day when the site was the top post, the resulting affiliate commissions were over $500. And most of them were not for products that were linked to on the site. The lifet…

which subreddit
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