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Yup, but note that the larger donations come with larger "rewards" later. Everyone above $350 gets a free year from the future subscription service. The $2000 and up donator gets a computer down the line. I wonder if the larger donations move down (up?) the continuum from encouragement towards investment.

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Wait, the site is going to be subscription? I thought this was supposed to compete with Facebook. Almost everyone is on Facebook because it's free.

They will release code for anyone to host their own site, but provide a subscription service for people that do not want to manage the code. I'd imagine some of the sites will be free, but they may not have all of the features possible. For example a company may want to use the subscription service for internal use but not want to host it.

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