[konjin]

I started a subreddit like that.

Shortly there after I made it private and only let myself have posting rights because I didn't feel like dealing with actual Nazis posting news about Jews ruling the world from the 30s, or hysterical liberals posting in every comment how everything that wasn't acceptable in 2018 SF was *ist.

Good luck, you're going to need it.

[m52go]

Yeah, I figure that's the curse of any community gaining traction. I expect to have to turn off comments at some point...if that fails I'll just restrict registrations.

In a worst-case scenario, I think the broader 100 Million Books project would still benefit from me and/or a couple of collaborators posting to it alone.

[konjin]

Since you'll own the platform, I did run a mailing list in the 00s that used to charge people $1 per email they sent out. It made the quality of the mailing list astronomical, but it died because it just couldn't scale with the payment systems in place then.

I have no idea what the integration of things like stripe are like today. I imagine it would be much better. Food for thought before you turn off comments.

[m52go]

Interesting, thanks. I actually looked into $1 payments for an adjacent project and the costs are still prohibitive even today. Stripe fees cost something like 30-40% for a $1 payment, and PayPal is only slightly better :/

[konjin]

Huh, that's better than what I was expecting.

I'll need to dig into the apis, but I don't see a reason why this can't work with those rules. I got hit with some ridiculous money laundering laws when I made more than $1k a month and needed to basically get an accounting colonoscopy or incorporate to continue which would have cost a lot more than I was making in a year.