Thank you for this. I've added each of these to the Retrospective post here:
https://www.karma.fm/p/67VCB/karma-retrospective-1014
RE the first bullet: did the introduction modal not pop up for you? If not, there's a bug. Anyone who hasn't visited should see the following:
https://i.imgur.com/p4J4oib.png
Thanks for taking time out of your day for this.
> * Eliminate the ideology, focus messaging on the value and support. "Socialist" is a very broad and burdened term.
No. Eliminating the ideology is never possible. If you try, you implicitly support the dominant one. Avoiding the term is a good idea though.
What do you think about embracing the controversy embedded within the term as a means of educating people around its underlying principles, getting people talking/thinking about it, etc?
I'm afraid the term makes many people stop thinking. They hear Karma is socialist and conclude that it's bad. Ideally, you would tell people Karma is socialist only after they have evaluated it.
On the other hand, even the most faithful anti-socialist should recognize that you aren't building a totalitarian dictatorship here. So it may make them think after all.
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network
by fstopmick on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:30PM
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Hey anoncake ~ just wanted to thank you for planting this seed. You and a few other members had the same ideas, and they're manifesting into a lower-friction articulation of what this thing is all about: https://www.karma.fm/p/S09A4/dialing-down-the-socialism-and-...
Many thanks for the impact.
* Anything with a sign-up feature needs an elevator pitch somewhere on the homepage: "What" and "Why" for the layman, two short paragraphs but ideally a single-sentence elevator pitch.
* Eliminate the ideology, focus messaging on the value and support. "Socialist" is a very broad and burdened term.
* Explain how tf this is socially owned. All I see a dictator, however benevolent, and a very inefficient donation system.
* Player Guide is... bad. Super hand-wavy on the stuff that should be specific (community guidelines), lots of ideology, and straight up fluff. Write assuming every reader is blind and ADD - some of them are, and everyone else will benefit.