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mk  ·  3589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about this invite thing.

    Is it just bullshit marketing? Creating fake scarcity to make Hubski seem more valuble?

No. As I mentioned to flagamuffin in pubski, I want to enhance the expectation that goes beyond: "Sign up and drop a comment." Also, it will hurt spam.

Maybe Waterford is right. Perhaps Hubski is more intimidating than it needs to be as is. That said, we do suffer from the impression that we are trying to be the next big thing, or a replacement for Reddit. I've always been interested in doing something specific, regardless of whether or not Reddit or anyone else was interested in doing it as well. In most places in life, we don't expect instant accessibility, especially when something has some depth to it. Yet we have grown accustomed to instant access online, and not usually due to an egalitarian intent.