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Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by zild3d »

alexanderdmitri wrote: post #86
Joe-Z wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>...but how exactly has a glorified message board which doesn't charge its users become one of the richest companies in the world? Because, as you just demonstrated with your programming example: For HIM it's a glorified message board. Other people may use it in completely different ways and appreciate it for them. I'm not the greatest facebook-fan either, but I think you're really overstating the control they have o…

I think you're missing my point. Google and Facebook are conditioning the population to say no big deal. It's creeping normalcy. Remember when Sergei was trying to make peeps comfortable with Gmail? [para-phrasing here:] "It's not a person reading your email, it's just a robot." Well now the robot is a neural net and I'm pretty convinced (if it's not already) that neural net will start feeding data to other nets buil…

I agree we're heading in that direction. There's actually a group of us that talk regularly about this, if you would like to join, here's our group on faceb...

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by mcherm »

tpeo wrote: post #10

Having some limit to posts is an interesting idea. But I don't see much of a return on investment for the users in this approach. Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead? Anyway, all of luck to them. I'd like to know what might develop from this. Though they really should have asked for two cents instead of ten. I mean, come on: how could you miss this?

> Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead?

Based on perceived value, I think that the fee for posting should be negative (it costs to post), but with a small amount recouped based on use (some combination of number of views, number of comments, etc.). Beyond a certain threshold of viewers, the posting would have a net positive cost (you get paid for popular posts).

I have not given much thought to how that could be gamed.

> Though they really should have asked for two cents instead of ten.

I absolutely agree.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by sl4i6j3o4i98g »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #92
sl4i6j3o4i98g wrote: post #59

Bitcoin cash! Ewwwwwwwww, i wont touch that with a 10 foot poll. As a holder of bitcoin, I will never spend the UTXO's on this chain, thus denying this false bitcoin of spendable outputs. Wouldn't something like lightning network microtx's be better than Bcash?

You do know that Bitcoin cash is more like the original Bitcoin than the "Bitcoin" of today?

Yeah, we must run MS-DOS forever. All software upgrades and protocol changes are wrong. We don't want no GUI or protected mode runtime, we will hatefork MS-DOS and run it forever. /s

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by jordancolburn »

alexanderdmitri wrote: post #66

As an American kid born along with the digital epoch of the 90s, I'm a bit of an oddity because the only social media I've ever used (& still use) is LinkedIn, which feels like sharing a room with a vipor. I have it set up with a dedicated email address and I only interact w/it in a sandboxed browser on VPN with a dedicated email address. (I guess you could add HN, StackExchange and GitHub to the list since there are…

LinkedIn: All the creepiness of a social network, with the addition of all the pushiness of a recruiter.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by mc32 »

dps7ud wrote: post #64
trott wrote: post #45

A problem with "social networks", and perhaps the Internet in general, in my opinion, is that they encourage groupthink. > Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed amongst earlier voters. This sort of pyramidal scheme actually gives people a monetary incentive to try to vote how others will vote, regardless of their actual opinion. Like other gambling, it may be a good business model, but it serves to exace…

I had similar thoughts about the following: > It costs 10¢ to post a comment and the money goes to the original author. Our users enjoy paying the original creator to post a nice comment next to their work. Which would seem to discourage discourage diversity of discussion since profits go to the OP.

What if they tweaked things so if you reply with an agreement to an opposing author, that money is,either split or goes to the opposing opinion's author outright?

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by fixie »

coldtea wrote: post #107
mollusk wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>And they are not helping your damn social life! First of all, I use Facebook in a similar way (dedicated email, sandboxed browser, external tracking disabled (I know it still tracks me internally), not entirely my real name, no mobile apps, all paranoia privacy settings on, don't really share anything). And I only signed up there a year or two ago. But Facebook absolutely helped my social (and even professional) lif…

> Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. It's 2017. Between aggregators, dedicated sites, instant notifications, apps, Calendar sync et all, we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups. I don't think 60s', 70s and 80s culture and art events (and event goers) suffered because they didn't have…

That's true. However, for better or worse, FB knows a lot about me (and my friends) so it can recommend somewhat related events to me without any effort on my part. There's at least some value there.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by jaclaz »

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

That price is too low.

>That price is too low.

An alternative was proposed, if you want to spend more ;) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14761633

Courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170713150307/https://medium.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170903044028/https://affluentc...

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by Kiro »

twelvedogs wrote: post #115
Kiro wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And they are not helping your damn social life! How do you know if you haven't even used them? Facebook is completely instrumental to my social life and I'm very happy with it. Also, what do you mean with "more direct means"? Is Facebook Messenger not direct enough?

facebook messenger is fine, but it's exactly the same as any other messenger/texting. facebook itself is a different beast, aside from the event planning stuff it's pretty much just a bunch of "look at what people you vaguely know are doing" for me

I agree. Events and Messenger are the core features for me. Sure, Messenger is like any other service except that all my friends are on it.

I use the feed to keep track of artists and stuff like that, like when they post a new song. Other than that, not much.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by lolsal »

I worry about not being able to get refunds for poor content. I clicked around a bit on the domain and there were a couple articles that had click-baity titles - an interesting premise, but I was turned off from the nature of the presentation:

- How Bitcoin will see massive adoption – it might surprise you.

- Still Don't Get Bitcoin? Here's an Explanation Even a Five-Year-Old Will Understand

I know reading would only cost $0.10 (or even less) which is not a life affecting amount, but I don't like the idea of that 'test' being seen as some sort of endorsement that I can't revoke.

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