Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative

Post by Kye » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

mopsi wrote: post #38

jqpabc123 wrote: post #24

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Small decentralized communities which users can freely and easily create and manage is the way to go! Yes --- except for a few nagging little problems. Like stability. Which is directly related to costs/fees to keep a "community" running.

I've run an online community since 2001 and I've yet to meet the boogeymen of self-hosting. A small site and forum with ~100 users doesn't cost a shit to run ($5 per month, the cost of a coke and a sandwich where I live), updates itself automatically via CPanel, and it isn't much of an issue if it goes down for an hour or two every other year. That's an acceptable cost for not having to submit to anyone's whims about…

Post by whitelabrat » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

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Post by jqpabc123 » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

ceres wrote: post #65

jqpabc123 wrote: post #35

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Ask anyone running a general discussion group for a neighborhood. It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation. Most people eventually quit if they're not being compensated in some significant way. On the other hand, if anything goes it can probably be fairly hands off.

> It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation And yet some Reddit mods manage subs with 10s of thousands for… free.

Post by WC3w6pXxgGd » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

TheRealPomax wrote: post #102

Why? Why even get in this race, there is nothing to win. Win by not playing, and just give those millions of dollars that were about to commit to losing anyway to local schools, community centers, food banks, and hey maybe just buy housing for the homeless (oh no, so unfair! they got a house for free! All they had to do was be on the brink of death every single day!). Do something good with those dollars instead.