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jjani 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineered Addictions

As long as the founders aren't looking to make billions, it's very possible to run a healthy social media platform, as evidenced by Front Porch Forum [1]. 20 employees, human moderators (gasp)! There's also Metafilter which is paid [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/10/front-p...

[2] https://www.metafilter.com/

IIsi50MHz 11 days ago [–]

> The current sign-up fee is US$5; it's a one-time fee and is the only cost associated with using the site.[1]

That's…surprisingly cheap. Which reminds me that I keep meaning to set up an SDF or tildeverse account.

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/faq.mefi#1

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