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How one little community helped us raise $8M

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Re: How one little community helped us raise $8M

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Happy to answer any questions about the fundraising process.

I don't really get Imzy - it sounds like a more liberal Reddit with more censorship? Censorship certainly makes HN better than Reddit, so no judgement there. I just don't understand the Imzy value proposition as a user.

Calling moderation "censorship" does a disservice to both terms.

Re: How one little community helped us raise $8M

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much higher, assuming people actually use the tipping feature.

Can't you do that on the rest of the Internet with Bitcoin? Why would I want to do that anyway?

The vast majority of internet users are not and will continue to not be bitcoin-savvy for a long time.

Re: How one little community helped us raise $8M

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really get Imzy - it sounds like a more liberal Reddit with more censorship? Censorship certainly makes HN better than Reddit, so no judgement there. I just don't understand the Imzy value proposition as a user.

It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much higher, assuming people actually use the tipping feature.

Tipping requires leaving your banking information and SSN on a site which offers at best a "brokered" anonymity.

And in fact tipping itself has been one of the mechanisms by which Imzy's anonymity has been breached:

https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/privacy_issues_with_tipping

My own experiences with Imzy have been less than salutory. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz...

Re: How one little community helped us raise $8M

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really get Imzy - it sounds like a more liberal Reddit with more censorship? Censorship certainly makes HN better than Reddit, so no judgement there. I just don't understand the Imzy value proposition as a user.

Calling moderation "censorship" does a disservice to both terms.

Seeing as Imzy has little moderation and much censorship, there's a validity to the description.
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