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Phez: Loosing $29,014 Creating the Bitcoin-Rewarding Reddit

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Bullshit, clickbait title: from the article- "It was self-funded, with about $350 or so worth of Bitcoin"

$350 is far from $29,014..hell, I've probably spent $350 in one night out partying before, and I've certainly lost that much or more in a single hand of poker more than once.

Pretty small change to compete with motherfcking reddit, one of the biggest sites on the web....and then to whine about it too? It would take $million$ to have a hope, i mean, come on, bro...

And regarding reddit's "censorship" that you speak of, ummm...have you seen what they still allow even now? That was token censorship of stuff like kiddie porn and people dying graphic deaths, and some stuff actually promoting the killing of homos and jews, and lynching blacks. You want that stuff??????

If you just want to take that kind of stuff, you could probably do alright with a site that focusses on just those areas!!! L M A O...have fun. :-\

Why can't people spell "losing?"

Doesn't take much to see this is a poor clone of indiehackers, whose content is written by someone who does not mainly use/speak English.

Especially since it loses the extra “O”. At least that’s how I remember the correct spelling.

Sorry! It is the second time I misspell "losing" :-) I am not English native speaker.

No sweat. I have seen some native English speakers misspell it the same way. It's not just the spelling that counts. Thanks for posting this article.

But I believe there should be somewhere online where you can voice opinions that are outside of the Overton window

Doesn’t 4chan solve that?

they really allow anything at all?? are you aware of the kind of extreme nastiness that reddit actually finally censored? i think the feds would seize their servers eventually.

With these post-mortem stories, I feel like there's a million ways to fail and maybe a few hundred ways to succeed.

Sure, you can learn through failure, but I see more value in trying to emulate success.

For example, we don't apprentice with multiple bad electricians to find out not to do it, we might apprentice with one or two good ones to find out how to do it well.

"Losing"

Reddit’s problem is not that it censors too much — in fact, quite the opposite, and I wish all the people trying to build ‘a better reddit’ would realize that.

Its more that it allows communities to interact negatively with each other too much. Generally speaking nobody in the "toxic" communities is worried about the speech there or they would unsubscribe. The problem is when they brigade on other subreddits, or people not OK with what is said in one community decide to impose their morals there. The net result is large communities at war with each other.

I think the biggest problem with the news aggregator model is that up- and down-voting encourage groupthink and low-brow, visceral content that's easy to digest quickly.

also said of Facebook's personal feed (whatever they call that)

There's a difference between censoring and curating.

Popular subreddits don't seem to to curate for meaningful discussion. So jokes, memes, and other low-effort comments often make discussion on reddit close to worthless.

The exceptions are always either small niche subreddits where a common deep interest focuses the discussion, or they're curated subreddits e.g. the neutral politics subreddit.

And as for censoring, moderators are often accused of selectively enforcing rules to favour their agendas etc. I must admit I'm not sure how much that actually happens though.

Let it loose!

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