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This still doesn't work. For the flattr buttons to be there, there must be mugs paying for the system. Those mugs are doing it becuase they think they are goi
by akadruid 16y ago
This still doesn't work. For the flattr buttons to be there, there must be mugs paying for the system. Those mugs are doing it becuase they think they are going to be taking money out - but, like any pyramid scheme, only the people at the top of the pile will make any money. How long do you think those mugs will keep paying in without getting anything out?
I'm willing to go on record with the following predictions:
1. No big site will get enough money to be worth the pixels the button takes up.
2. No small site will get back as much as they put in.
3. The number of people who pay in without expecting to get anything out will be essentially zero.
4. Flattr will shut down entirely within 2 years from today.
- gojomo 16y agoMany early adopters will get fuzzies [1] from participating, and paying-in, and delivering shares to their favorite sites, even if they don't get net payments out. Whether that is enough to break-out into a larger audience is the question. But it could be self-sustaining at a small level -- as a mutual appreciation society, with a sort of competition going on among the Flattratti for each others' shares -- even without a breakout. It's easy to predict something novel will fail; most truly new things do. [1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Fuzzies http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Fuzzies