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> I wish someone would make a site like that again! On a technical level, it's not hard. On business level, it's doubtful if there's a compelling enough busine
by yosito 5y ago
> I wish someone would make a site like that again!
On a technical level, it's not hard. On business level, it's doubtful if there's a compelling enough business model to prevent it from becoming another surveillance capitalism platform. And on a societal level, it seems impossible that living generations will ever trust a platform en masse again enough to achieve such ubiquity.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoI'm convinced that there is a service people will pay for. My idea is that _somebody_ in a social group will want it to happen, and that they can pay for the whole group.
- yosito 5y agoI paid to boost a Discord server for my whole friend group, and they still insist on sticking to the WhatsApp group chat because "we don't want to download another app, everybody already uses WhatsApp".
- wintermutestwin 5y agoNon-profit would be a perfect business model. It isn't like that level of functionality requires a multi $B company to run it.
- yosito 5y ago"Non-profit" is a type of business, but not a business model.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoYou are technically correct, but "non-profit" designation opens up the potential for a healthy and positive business model that doesn't rely on the theft of user data.