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Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working ... by jeremyjh on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:43AM (#36309414)
This is definitely the idea, but are there enough educated consumers willing to spend money to avoid being trapped in shittified experiences? That's the question that matters.
Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working ... by Zetice on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:33AM (#36309990)
“Enough” is relative, how many do you really need to sustain the site?
Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working ... by jeremyjh on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:59AM (#36310327)
Paying the servers is not enough. For it to have a future, it really needs paid employees. See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-...
Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working ... by Zetice on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:12AM (#36311425)
Couldn't disagree more, both on future vision of what this could be, as well as the implication that I said, "paying the servers is enough." "Sustain the site" involves growing the site, but none of that involves obtaining millions of users.

Also lesswrong is a cesspool of pseudointellectual bullshit. Eliezer Yudkowsky's ideas don't stand up to reality on average, and the people who "follow" him tend not to understand the relationship between methods of thinking about the world and methods of predicting how the world will behave.

Re:Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working ... by jeremyjh on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:23PM (#36312554)
I agree about LW in general, but I also found the idea of paying people to get things done to be a good one nonetheless.