4 ms·

> I would happily pay 20 dollars a year for a social media site that > does not track or advertise if anyone is up for building it. It costs me $20/mo to run a

> I would happily pay 20 dollars a year for a social media site that > does not track or advertise if anyone is up for building it. It costs me $20/mo to run a Mastodon instance. Might cost me less if I spent the time to seriously optimize it. Someday I should get a Patreon up so some of the other people using my instance can kick in a few bucks and bring the cost to me down. No ads, no tracking, I just run it because I want to help actually make “social media” actually be about talking to my friends instead of being fed Popular Tweets From Celebrities. You could also just start running your own blog. Host it yourself, use WordPress Blogger Medium Tumblr, whatever.

f055 8y ago
It feels like everyone just wants to log back into the internet of 1999. That ship has sailed though. But if you look at Web 3.0 and social networks like Peepeth, I see hope – on a site that puts everything irreversibly and forever on the blockchain and you actually need to perform, albeit micro, payments to act on this network, I expect spammers and troll farms to be unable to manage their evil operations economically. But who knows where we end up...
- TACIXAT 8y ago
  I like the idea of micro transactions for user interactions, I just don't love the idea of it being via a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies convert electricity to currency, which is great for energy companies, but I would much rather use fractions of a cent than jump through the middlemen and waste to use a satoshi.
  - dustfinger 8y ago
    not all crypo currencies require excessive electricity. Also, a micro transaction is not needed for every interaction.
- egypturnash 8y ago
  An Internet where everyone has to constantly make micro payments just to use it kinda sounds like hell to me. We don’t need to have someone making a profit off of every single interaction. Are you comfortable with how your blockchain-based all-for-pay Web 3.0 would inherently bias any discussion in favor of whoever had the most money?
TACIXAT 8y ago
I'll have to give Mastadon a second glance. I think it being similar to Twitter gave me a bit of a prejudice against it.
- egypturnash 8y ago
  It’s definitely inspired by Twitter. For good and for ill. It has the big difference of not being something run with the intent of serving as many ads as possible; Mastodon instances are run for the hell of it, and many are paid for via Patreon. I like to call it “the People’s Glorious Social Network”.

f055 8y ago

It feels like everyone just wants to log back into the internet of 1999. That ship has sailed though. But if you look at Web 3.0 and social networks like Peepeth, I see hope – on a site that puts everything irreversibly and forever on the blockchain and you actually need to perform, albeit micro, payments to act on this network, I expect spammers and troll farms to be unable to manage their evil operations economically. But who knows where we end up...

TACIXAT 8y ago
I like the idea of micro transactions for user interactions, I just don't love the idea of it being via a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies convert electricity to currency, which is great for energy companies, but I would much rather use fractions of a cent than jump through the middlemen and waste to use a satoshi.
- dustfinger 8y ago
  not all crypo currencies require excessive electricity. Also, a micro transaction is not needed for every interaction.
egypturnash 8y ago
An Internet where everyone has to constantly make micro payments just to use it kinda sounds like hell to me. We don’t need to have someone making a profit off of every single interaction. Are you comfortable with how your blockchain-based all-for-pay Web 3.0 would inherently bias any discussion in favor of whoever had the most money?

TACIXAT 8y ago

I'll have to give Mastadon a second glance. I think it being similar to Twitter gave me a bit of a prejudice against it.

egypturnash 8y ago
It’s definitely inspired by Twitter. For good and for ill. It has the big difference of not being something run with the intent of serving as many ads as possible; Mastodon instances are run for the hell of it, and many are paid for via Patreon. I like to call it “the People’s Glorious Social Network”.