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Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by LordKano »

geofft wrote: post #42
kristianc wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see what's massively objectionable about wanting to build a community based on tolerance, kindness and mutual respect.

It's an existential threat for people who want to be intolerant, unkind, and disrespectful, because it makes it clear that spaces that don't accept such behavior end up being at least as productive and as useful for the world as spaces that do. Therefore it's extremely important for such people to establish the world as a a safe space against safe spaces, and to push the idea that such spaces are untenable or morally…

I make an effort to not be intolerant but I have found myself being attacked for holding beliefs and political positions that are "outside of the mainstream" and there are people who can not tolerate that.

I like that they made the attempt to build this but I would have never joined it because I could see myself getting into conflicts because of my beliefs.

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by aakriti1215 »

kickme444 wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm the founder of Imzy. It's a hard day but I want to make myself available, especially to entrepreneurs who may have questions. This last 2 years has been fun, and hard and I've learned a lot. You can reply here or email me at dan@imzy.com I also have an amazing staff of developers, community minded folks, product people, executives, who are looking for work. Many of them mare open to moving (we are in Salt Lak…

Can you talk on the challenges and strategies of creating a community of people like Imzy? Not necessarily just online, but also in real life, how do you bring people together?

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by LoSboccacc »

drewrv wrote: post #11
williamstein wrote: post #4

I spent 5 minutes on the site, and I still have no clue what it is... I would like to know, since it's interesting to understand what people have tried and gave up on.

It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.

> less racists

isn't that mostly a function of the userbase? any social network is bounded to attract radicals from all sides, especially one that allows anonymous users, and those are the ones that produces the highest content/user

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by [deleted] »

seibelj wrote: post #6

Turns out the vast majority of people don't want to spend their lives in a permanent "safe space"[0]. That was a fast flameout [0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/a-chat-with-imzy-co-founde...

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Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by GoatHerderson »

r721 wrote: post #39
GoatHerderson wrote: post #12

What did Imzy do? Anyone know?

Here is a TechCrunch piece from last year: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/anti-reddit-platform-imzy-...

Oh, I thought Imzy was putting on a show. Character looked fun!

Sounds like it had nothing to do with the project...

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by lillesvin »

koolba wrote: post #16
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Wait, what? They raised a $8M Series A less than a year ago! https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/imzy-raises-8-million-seri... That was also the time it was opened to the public. This shutdown appears to be a strong counterpoint against Reddit alternatives becoming an inherently successful business prospect.

How did they spend $8M in one year? The pic in your linked article shows 12 people. If they didn't have traction, they shouldn't have exorbitant server costs either. So where's it all go?

They didn't spend them all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411586

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by r721 »

nebabyte wrote: post #67
drewrv wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.

> shinier but harder to use give it time. reddit's not done shittying up their UI - hell, they're just getting started :)

Yeah, did you see this?

https://i.redd.it/qzl5uzte483y.png

/shudders/

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by TylerE »

exelius wrote: post #59
TylerE wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit itself is not a successful business project.

It is if your goal is to control (or at least influence) the Internet zeitgeist without appearing to...

That's a propaganda success, not a business success. Reddit has always lost money, and continues to lose money quarter after quarter.

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by kristianc »

LordKano wrote: post #71
geofft wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an existential threat for people who want to be intolerant, unkind, and disrespectful, because it makes it clear that spaces that don't accept such behavior end up being at least as productive and as useful for the world as spaces that do. Therefore it's extremely important for such people to establish the world as a a safe space against safe spaces, and to push the idea that such spaces are untenable or morally…

I make an effort to not be intolerant but I have found myself being attacked for holding beliefs and political positions that are "outside of the mainstream" and there are people who can not tolerate that. I like that they made the attempt to build this but I would have never joined it because I could see myself getting into conflicts because of my beliefs.

Would you join a Subreddit which reinforces these political beliefs and is that not a safe space in itself?

It seems to me that everywhere on the internet that you might class as a 'haven of free speech' (whether it's 4chan, Twitter, Mumsnet or Atheists Rationalist Skeptics Anonymous) comes with an underlying set of social norms which to some extent preconfigure the kind of debate that will happen there. Imzy is just another one of those, no?

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