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This doesn't really matter to me. What I'm curious about, though, is a far more general question that this brings to mind. How do you build a social network th
by bovermyer 11y ago
This doesn't really matter to me.
What I'm curious about, though, is a far more general question that this brings to mind. How do you build a social network that sustains itself through community rather than advertising dollars? Is that even possible?
- jgroszko 11y agoWikipedia has a yearly donation drive. I'd be incredibly surprised if Twitter took that path though.
- venomsnake 11y agoReddit gold is one way. The way linux distros mirrors work show that there are entities willing to provide bandwidth and servers for no return. You could decentralize it and use end users bandwidth and storage to make it cheap to operate. The crucial problem is the onboarding of users. Once you reach critical mass everything else is easy.
- cwyers 11y ago> Reddit gold is one way. Reddit seems to spend more than it brings in in a year, if reports that it had $20 million in cash when Conde Nast spun them off and had $18 million in 2013 are true.(1) Reddit also has ads. It doesn't seem like Reddit gold is sufficient to keep a large site afloat. (1) http://allthingsd.com/20130109/reddits-funding-round-is-for-real-and-its-only-for-angels/ http://allthingsd.com/20130109/reddits-funding-round-is-for-...