Ello, ad-free social network

[PenAndPaper]

What do you guys think about ello? It seems that it's been going viral for a few days now.
I don't evan have a facebook account but i like the vibe of this.

[SamTsuedo]

There are so many social networks these days and most of them are copycats or trying to be next facebook or twitter etc. I'll still take a look at the Ello.

[twister]

Never even heard of it, will have to check it out now.

[Neotox]

never heard about this before
but i will check this out and give it a try
lets see what makes it special

[jontrue]

to many social networks ...

[Vod]

What do you guys think about ello? It seems that it's been going viral for a few days now.
I don't evan have a facebook account but i like the vibe of this.

What do you like about the "vibe"?

I just checked it out but found nothing special.  If they are not showing ads, how will they pay the bills if the site becomes at all popular?

[Hellcat]

i just use vk.com for their music archive

I just checked it out but found nothing special.  If they are not showing ads, how will they pay the bills if the site becomes at all popular?

if something is free, then you're the product

[Decksperiment]

What do you guys think about ello? It seems that it's been going viral for a few days now.
I don't evan have a facebook account but i like the vibe of this.

What do you like about the "vibe"?

I just checked it out but found nothing special.  If they are not showing ads, how will they pay the bills if the site becomes at all popular?

You may have missed the hidden bit that state's you will be shown 'selective' or 'targeted' adverts, gleamed of course, from the same scource facebook and google use, oh, and it is invite only at the moment, or at least since I last looked last week

[newflesh]

Yeah I doubt it'll be ad-free, they've taken nearly $500,000 in VC funding so they have to monitize something. Plenty of other alternatives but they're not very popular yet:

https://diasporafoundation.org/

https://movim.eu/

http://syndie.i2p2.de/

[Decksperiment]

Yeah I doubt it'll be ad-free, they've taken nearly $500,000 in VC funding so they have to monitize something. Plenty of other alternatives but they're not very popular yet:

https://diasporafoundation.org/

https://movim.eu/

http://syndie.i2p2.de/

Just another spy network really, re-record not fade away.. lol

[rohnearner]

Yeah I doubt it'll be ad-free, they've taken nearly $500,000 in VC funding so they have to monitize something. Plenty of other alternatives but they're not very popular yet:

https://diasporafoundation.org/

https://movim.eu/

http://syndie.i2p2.de/

The only way it can survive without monetizing is through Donations..! like Wikipedia/wikimedia...! but than again look what value Wikipedia holds and what kinda source is ..! its gonna be hard for a  social networking website to survive on donations.. lets see if they can do it.

[Nick.Fury]

sorry but i dont like

[Decksperiment]

This is the only social site I'm a member of  

I meant bitcointalk, lol..

[rohnearner]

Has anyone else got this message
"
The site is currently unavailable while we conduct some necessary maintenance. Follow along for any updates on our status page. "
 I'm getting this message from last few hours.

[Madness]

I heard about it just couple a day ago , all I know is that an invite is needed to join them , you tested it ? how is it like ? what do they do exactly 

[Vod]

I heard about it just couple a day ago , all I know is that an invite is needed to join them , you tested it ? how is it like ? what do they do exactly 

Many companies in the past have exploded in membership after having an "invite only" phase.

Sadly, I don't believe this is one of them.  The site offers nothing new, nor the membership numbers that Facebook has.

[newflesh]

Yeah I doubt it'll be ad-free, they've taken nearly $500,000 in VC funding so they have to monitize something. Plenty of other alternatives but they're not very popular yet:

https://diasporafoundation.org/

https://movim.eu/

http://syndie.i2p2.de/

Just another spy network really, re-record not fade away.. lol

lol true, haven't used any social media in years glad I never bothered with facebook

Yeah I doubt it'll be ad-free, they've taken nearly $500,000 in VC funding so they have to monitize something. Plenty of other alternatives but they're not very popular yet:

https://diasporafoundation.org/

https://movim.eu/

http://syndie.i2p2.de/

The only way it can survive without monetizing is through Donations..! like Wikipedia/wikimedia...! but than again look what value Wikipedia holds and what kinda source is ..! its gonna be hard for a  social networking website to survive on donations.. lets see if they can do it.

Donation based funding is fine by me but I'm not sure if a large social network could survive without selling users information to third parties.

[PowerCordZ]

I took a look at it and decided not to go for it for atleast a year.

[1Referee]

Not sure how long they can stretch it to run without ads.

Or they just sell data to third party companies to gain revenue.

[PenAndPaper]

lol someone sells 2 invites for 2 BTC!