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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Attractive alternatives have suffered from the delusion that open source software makes everything free. 20/

      3 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      A successful social network has to pay for servers; people to run the servers; for programmers to maintain & extend the software. 21/

      3 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      $$ to pay for a non-advertising social network has to come from users. http://app.net  tried the subscription model; it failed. 22/

      4 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Several new social networks tried the donation model. Wikipedia is the only large site I can think of which makes this work. (How?) 22/

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Mastodon is donation-supported. If every user gave a few dollars per month at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786  it would succeed. 23/

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      For Mastodon to be an adequate twitter replacement, it needs a billion users, roughly. Will a billion people donate? I doubt it. 24/

      4 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Mastodon was huge fun yesterday; it was many of the best people from twitter, talking uninhibitedly, without boring and nasty ones. 25/

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Today it's mostly unusable; the server can't handle the load. That's with an influx of thousands. What happens if millions arrive? 26/

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      If a web site could charge users for access *without requiring credit-card sign-up* ("micropayments"), it would solve this problem. 27/

      3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      Micropayments are technically very difficult (unlike the software for a twitter-alike). I hope someone makes this work; no one has. 28/

      4 replies 4 retweets 7 likes
      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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      A long-term, publicly-visible identity is THE KEY FEATURE of Twitter, I think. I've put a lot of work into mine… About to lose that? 29/

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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          To invest serious effort in a social network identity, you should believe that it will still exist years from now. How? 30/

          3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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          YOU SHOULD OWN your network identity! You can't entrust it to Facebook (evil!) or Twitter (collapsing?) or Mastodon (collapsing!). 31/

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        2. Dan Plante‏ @Daniel_Plante 3 Apr 2017
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          David, the identity you refer to doesn't necessarily have to reflect one's own real name. In time, your credit score could attach to a nym.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Apr 2017
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          Absolutely! This is important for many people

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