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Itâs because they arenât trying to sell as many t-shirts as possible (like fashion retailers) but instead sell to their hardcore fans. People who are willing to wear a LTT shirt might even be happy if itâs just for those who really identify with it instead of random people buying it to use as a t-shirt.
tl;dr: because they can
https://lemmy.161.social/post/10447 This was the original thread!
I found another interesting article:
Simon Harman, 23, Lokiâs project lead, said Mr Watkinâs plan was by and large a surprise â and one, he conceded, that might not be optimal for the companyâs emerging reputation.
Mr Harman says Loki did not invite 8kun onto its open source network nor help build it.
But some Loki staff may have advised 8kun administrators âto a limited extentâ, he said, and provided some help to users hoping to access it.
âGenerally, if we get requests for technical information about our platform, weâll just give it out. Itâs all up open source anyway,â he said.
âThereâs definitely been interaction between 8chan users and the Lokinet team. Iâm not going to say that that hasnât occurred, but I donât think itâs anything out of the ordinary.â
But I think all in all there isnât clear intent here, so weâll just have to see what the future brings.
Good luck to your team and such.
Iâd like to host a router if there ever is a fork that doesnât need the Oxen stake.
Pleroma is cool as well, but since mastodon allows to move your profile to a different server while taking followers with you I feel like this is a killer feature. I can confidently tell new users that it doesnât matter which instance they join at first, they can always move later. Like this the feeling of âmissing outâ is relieved a bit.
I see that the announcement advertising post wasnât on 8chan or 8kun but overchan, which makes sense, since jeff worked on nntp-chan. Sorry that I claimed they did.
8kun (rebrand after 8chan was banned) does host their site on lokinet and still does, for two years now though, right?
Also there is this reddit post where someone claims that
So itâs pure coincidence that Ronâs father Jim Watson, who has been hosting 8chan and is now running 8kun, has transferred some of his old business into a âLoki Technology Inc.â of his own some time ago (see https://www.5ch.net), and that 8kunâs planned âProject ODINâ caters to the same Norse mythology theme. It almost made me wonder, especially since Lokiâs dev Jeff has also been active on endchan.
Their name actually is Jim Watkins and wikipedia also states that
Watkins also runs the Manila-based business Loki Technology.
What is going on here? Nothing to do with the Oxen, lokinet etc?
Is it just a coincidence that the biggest site hosted on your network is 8kun?
Also: $17k min investment to help the network, lmao thatâs insane and I canât imagine that does any good.
You could get a second phone?