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  1. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

    Tonstie
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    I was adding random names to be used in Smash Bros Ultimate and added Tosti. After a while I added some letters and ended with Tonstie

    I was adding random names to be used in Smash Bros Ultimate and added Tosti. After a while I added some letters and ended with Tonstie

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

    Tonstie
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    You can always use it if you want to pay after you've eaten at an Australian restaurant

    You can always use it if you want to pay after you've eaten at an Australian restaurant

    10 votes

  3. Dumb internet ideas

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    Hello people, This is my first post, so if you have any tips, please tell them For a number of years I've thought about the idea that the experiment of the "free" internet has failed. Around...

    Hello people,
    This is my first post, so if you have any tips, please tell them

    For a number of years I've thought about the idea that the experiment of the "free" internet has failed.
    Around fifteen years ago the only goal of social media was to grow and how to make money was an afterthought. Now that investment money is drying up and websites like Reddit and Twitter are trying their best to find a way to become profitable, I'm thinking again of the idea that the "free" internet doesn't exist.
    Small niche websites are able to exist on donations, but they aren't reliable and people aren't willing to pay a random single access fee or subscription for a website they don't know. Streaming has found an audience, but that has become close to the tv model.

    So I thought:
    What if your ISP has to pay a website a fee everytime a user accesses the website?
    Of course you have to think about how that payment works and how this system can be abused.
    I expect the system to work like music streaming, where an artist gets a certain amount of money per stream.
    I am curious how the internet developes with this system. If smaller websites can exist without having to rely on adverstisements or if it might even get profitable. How these websites get paid and how IPS's will handle this (I expect monthly fees to become 10 euros/dollars etc. more expensive).

    What do you think of this idea or do you have your own (dumb) idea?

    13 votes

  4. Comment on The Password Game in ~tech

    Tonstie
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    I know that you should look up how to check(mate) the king, but every time I choose that position with the Algebraic notation, the rule says it's an illegal move

    I know that you should look up how to check(mate) the king, but every time I choose that position with the Algebraic notation, the rule says it's an illegal move

    2 votes