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by dsir 2y ago
In September, the Liberal party of Canada introduced a bill meant to raise the portion of capital gains on which companies pay tax to two-thirds from one-half. The policy would also apply to individuals with capital gains earnings above $25
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by dsir 2y ago
Does anyone know the numbers in layman's terms regarding the demand for compute and what our systems/chips are able to reasonably process with this new tech? I'm curious if the technology is now vastly out preforming the dema
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by dsir 3y ago
I think the issue with Patreon, and a lot of similar services is that they are too focused on the "creator > consumer" relationship. I think the biggest value that a content creator is creating is acting as a beacon that people
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by dsir 3y ago
Part of the reason Discord falls short as a social platform is that each community is siloed off from the rest. There is no continuity bridging the overarching platform and userbase. I feel like for a social platform to work, the platform i
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by dsir 3y ago
I think what's equally as important as the archiving is the aggregating of the information. It's one thing to have a story, or piece of content documented somewhere, but at the end of the day, people still need ways to find it. I
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by dsir 3y ago
This law is a link tax. It means the government wants Meta and Google to pay every single time a link to a Canadian news source is shared on their platform (from what I understand, including even in private messages to friends). As far as I
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by dsir 3y ago
People in support of this need to consider how this type of legislation affects the integrity of the internet. This bill is not about supporting independent media like they claim. This is first and foremost a link tax, and the result of it
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by dsir 3y ago
Oh I think it might be to do with the capitalization. We will add a fix. Thanks for bringing this up
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by dsir 3y ago
I'm not sure the wedge created between many of the communities and the platform is repairable at this stage without extended displays of good will from Reddit's side. Lots of communities have started the process of migrating to di
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by dsir 3y ago
Do you mean like example@something.me? I just tried and that seems to work
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback!
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by dsir 3y ago
> In fact, some of the communities that closed down in response to the API changes explicitly shifted to Discord. While Discord does some things right in the community platform space, I don't think its a suitable replacement for R
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by dsir 3y ago
Reddit's disregard for the stewards and curators from which it derives its value from was strange to see. It doesn't seem wise for them to go to war with the people creating and managing the communities that provide the very backb
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Why content creators should focus on creating a community over content(sociables.com)
3 points by dsir 3y ago|0 comments
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the discussion!
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by dsir 3y ago
It's certainly our intention to make the platform work with relying on outside funding as little as possible. Ideally we will be able to get the platform to being profitable without needing much. The economics of our platform start to
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by dsir 3y ago
Hey, thanks for checking out the platform. As I mentioned in the attached article, we actually do have a monetization strategy in place outside of relying on advertisements and VC funding. We take a cut of each transaction that occurs on th
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Show HN: Sociables: The community platform for content creators and niches(sociables.substack.com)
7 points by dsir 3y ago|6 comments
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by dsir 3y ago
> My ideal situation would be that mods and content creators get paid from the reddit awards I've been working on a community platform/Reddit alternative that has a business model exactly like this. It's like a Reddit&#x2F
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by dsir 3y ago
This does seem to be a major concern
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by dsir 3y ago
I'm not sure the wedge created between the communities and the platform is repairable at this stage without extended displays of good will from Reddit's side. Lots of communities have started the process of migrating to different
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by dsir 3y ago
> Reddit uses 100% volunteer work and the entirety of the Reddit content moderation structure is Volunteer Perhaps this is a fundamental flaw with the platform. I see no reason why the people hosting and curating the communities should
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid taking the best features of each platform and combining them. One key aspect is we h
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by dsir 3y ago
Lots of communities on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption. Most o
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by dsir 3y ago
Lots of communties on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption. Most of
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by dsir 3y ago
This bill is so backwards. If anything the news companies should be the ones paying Facebook and Google for doing free marketing for them. Google and other social media platforms seem like the primary source of traffic for these legacy medi
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid taking the best features of each platform and combining them. One key aspect is we h
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by dsir 3y ago
In my opinion Discord got some things right in the community space. Their voice chat system is very good and the way they have channels allows for discussion to be spread across different topics under the same umbrella (community). On Reddi
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The importance of creating communities over content(sociables.com)
5 points by dsir 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Sociables, a Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid community platform(sociables.com)
7 points by dsir 3y ago|0 comments

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