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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  2190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Funding Hubski (and others)

    ... up there in the upper right is pretty close to what you describe ...

It may be for you, but it isn't for me; The Giver.

Facebook sneakily makes me into the product, and hides this every way they can, in order to monetize my activity and sell access to my eyeballs.

Hubski doesn't.

I want to participate differently with Hubski. I want to be reminded that this is A Different Place. It doesn't operate like other places. It has different expectations.

I would like Hubski to be honest and up front, and - most importantly - not bashful about the fact that running a thing like this costs money. Let's be straight with each other, and put it right up there at the top of the page, in an unambiguous way.

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The spirit is best expressed by a story that Amanda Palmer tells.

Thoreau has been lionized as this man who went off into the woods alone and led this ascetic existence away from man, in nature, and blah blah blah.

The truth is that, every weekend, his wife and sister would visit and bring him pastries. Donuts.

She says that the simple fact is that art and communities rely on patrons for support. And they should both be unflinching about that fact, and be up front about it.

Amanda Palmer says, "Take the fucking donuts!" It's not honorable or diminishing or inappropriate to accept other people's generosity.

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The penile-thermometer is passive, and requires discovery.

I want it to be honest and forthright, rather than shy and subtle.

...just like the Hubski community itself...