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comment by matjam
matjam  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The social aggregator is a terrible business model.

I post a link, an anonymous person browses the site and clicks the link, or reads the discussion, it's a "cost" I "incurred" ... :-)

I dunno, my first multi user system was a mainframe, I kind of like that traditional approach where every cpu cycle is counted and accounted for.





TheSkeward  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. It is a pretty elegant idea to have everything divvied up like that. What would you do in the case of someone who just heard about it from a RL friend, googled 'Hubski' and clicked the link?

matjam  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whoever 'generated' the content is incurring the cost of anonymous views.

I don't know, I was being flippant. :-) But it's an approach, maybe ..