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Broke leftists, who here would appreciate a hexbear 'beermoney' community? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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EDIT: Translation - 'quid' means £1 ... British slang.

Not saying I have the time to host it right now, but there's a lot of 'free' money to be made in referral links to various offers. Most of these offers truly only take about 5 minutes.

Some are a bit more elaborate but still easy - and technically better paying than many of our jobs per hour, I bet. Don't expect it to cover your rent of course, but an extra 30 quid here and there really racks up. I've seen lots of people make an extra 1500 yearly by essentially doing nothing.

Anyway, with these referral links, not only might we all end up a little better off and less stressed, but I think it opens up much more 'mutual-aid' ability - I certainly feel more generous when it's 'free money' that I'm giving away.

Currently, I'm using referral links from total randoms on Reddit, meaning half of the referral money is going to some Reddit bloke, when actually it could be going to one of us, or even towards hexbears maintenance fees. If a hexbear admin had a referral link to all of these offers, they could end up with 200 quid in their account from just one post...

I get there's probably privacy issues with it, but to me it seems like a good idea.

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[–] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as the original intention of "beer money" (eg: side cash through crowdwork is included). I don't know if a comm entirely filled with referral links would get many visitors.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at the r/beermoney subreddits. Lots of visitors.

[–] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://old.reddit.com/r/referralcodes/top/?sort=top&t=all https://old.reddit.com/r/Referral/top/?sort=top&t=all https://old.reddit.com/r/Referrals/top/?sort=top&t=all These are the top subreddits for referral codes I think. There's lots of top level posts on there, but the "users online", as well as upvotes is extremely low, which makes me think that a lot of people are posting into the void. You could be right, but the lack of participation that I'm seeing gives me a bit of pause. Having it be more functional than a link dump might be beneficial.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Nah, those ones are all garbage. r/beermoneyUK at least is strictly moderated so only worthwhile stuff gets through.

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