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(Tildes is my site)

The best explanation of the site's goals is probably still the original announcement blog post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

Here's the discussion on HN at the time (note that the site was totally private at that time and you couldn't even view it without an invite yet): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093

Feel free to ask any questions, and if you're interested in an invite please just email the address in the blog post and I'll send you one soon. It's not intended to be difficult to get an invite, I just want to keep the growth controlled while a base site culture and more features get built up.

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As an avid Redditor I love this!

The company I work for, Coil, is specifically looking to enable sites like this have an alternative revenue model that is not based on ads[1]. If you have any questions you can reach out to me matt[at]companyurl

I would also suggest you check out https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

[1] https://coil.com/creator

Wow. These links opened new doors I didn't know existed. I've been experimenting with sponsorship ads to fund my sites because I'm very against the current advertising model. However, Coil looks to be an interesting alternative to the ad model as a whole.

What tech stack you are using? Ok found from ur link, sorry, here it is[0]

https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy/site-implementation#use-m...

The post states you're supported by donations. How do you go about keeping the site up and financially healthy based on just donations?

It really doesn't take much when your goal is "sustainable". The site's actual expenses have always been more than covered from donations, and the current servers can probably easily handle at least 100x the traffic. The goal now is just bringing in enough to be able to pay myself a somewhat respectable salary.

Here's the current month's financials (this is linked from below the donation goal meter on the home page): https://tildes.net/financials

Thank you for creating Tildes, and open sourcing it.

I was wondering if federation, like with GNU Social/Mastodon, was part of the overall roadmap. I.e., having two separate Tildes instances that can interact with each other.

EDIT: Ok, I see it isn't planned according to the discussion here: https://tildes.net/~tildes/c8p/how_would_federation_work_wit...

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