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by ebg13 2553 days ago
Much of this fails at the most basic principle of marketing. You get 5 seconds of attention (maximum) before people bounce forever; don't make them dig.

> - librehosters is a network of cooperation and solidarity

First tell me concretely what you do. Do you aggregate links to FLOSS service providers? You can spend as much time as you want being vague after that. If you start with vagueness, you'll lose a large percentage of your audience immediately.

> - Linux.Pizza is a collection of tools and services

> - Dark Peak is a user-run co-operative providing hosted open-source software

> - Disroot is a platform providing online services

> - libre service provider

> - Ethical service provider relying on FOSS

> - Services for the Belgian Hackerspaces

What services? Which software? In order to know anything about any of them right now, a person has to click through to every single one, which they will not do.

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I came to the comments in the hope that someone had explained WTF this project is.

HN discourages ā€œ+1ā€ comments, but I’m breaking the rule to chime in here.

Maybe a concrete example or a howto would help? Can I use some of these services? Why should I trust you? Any of these things would help.