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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah exactly. That's why I think a lot of different flavors of websites would work out. Everyone wants a little something different, so why not have a bunch of different communities that can all develop their own unique culture? And then also I can try out different hosting services simultaneously and if we ever have a problem with one we can flip them all over to the other server company where we're already set up. I think it will work. I think the "no politics" one has the best chance of hooking a lot of people in at launch.

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Perhaps a good idea would be to have Saidit for politics, and an alternative website for everything else? It just doesn't seem economically viable to have two products, but one has less features. Companies typically only do that to lower costs or to phase out an old product — neither of which you seem to be planning to do.

And how would this new website compete with Reddit? The only reason Saidit is viable is because Reddit banned everyone right of center, and they wanted somewhere to talk politics. A lot of people here still use Reddit for non-politics, so that side of Saidit is desolate. I'm curious, from an economist's perspective, how you'd overcome this problem.

I find it funny how this conversation evolved from "the troll is back" to what equates to economics.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe. Each one will attract different types of people, looking for different types of content and conversation. It's worth trying.