A totally legitimate interview of our core team by an eminent journalist (real)
First of all, what do you mean by community blog?
A blog which is community owned and operated. Non-Profit. Exists purely for the sake of providing a safe space to write for the community.
What Community?
The Queer community. Focusing on the trans experience of their world.
How do you know who is queer?
We don’t. That’s why we will always stay invite based. We invited queer people we know. Next onwards, users get to decide who you let in. You will be inviting people in. We trust your judgement.
Do the members need to maintain a tone or something?
Nope. Unless you put in your legal name, who will know it is you? Use that anonymity wisely. Maybe make seventeen blogs for all seventeen of your personalities with different languages, dialects, and word associations. The sky is the limit. I always wanted to start a mysterious blog where I’ll talk only in binaries and morse code. Maybe I’ll do that now once I’m free.
What is your vision for the blog?
None. The community members get to decide that. We are a facilitator. We had the knowhow, so we did it. You are the writer, dream up a vision and make other writers agree with you.
What about hosting costs?
It’s currently about INR 3500 to host all services minus the human labour cost. We are on a 2 CPU + 2 GB RAM system. with 60 gb of storage. We have 1000 GB Bandwidth for data. We host on digital ocean, and we pay for extra protection. The cost is expected to go up when we need more storage. We also intend to host a image sharing service later if there is a demand. That will drive up the cost as well.
How will you pay for it?
So far we are paying for it out of our pockets. But we have some ideas. We are also publishing books, and profits from that will be diverted to maintain the blog. We also intend to sell merchandise to recoup some of the costs as well. And beyond that we will open up subscriptions and donations. We are setting up another website which would be https://daxayoni.com to collect funds if people want to pay a small amount each month. However, https://daxayoni.com/ will never post any article from https://daxayoni.blog. The other website exists to aggregate all our official publications.
How about the writers?
Glad you asked. All the blogs have web monetisations enabled. Web monetisation ensures everytime someone visits your blog you get paid a little amount of money. it’s on it’s early days so not a lot of users, but this is being proposed as being a web standard. Once that happens, you can get paid without ads. You can be an early adopter with us to ensure your own right to get paid for your honest work. We are also not google searchable or trackable, we also have no trackers beyond as stated in the privacy policy. We also can’t see anything about a user except their username, the physical space their content is consuming, and their public blogs. That’s it.
That’s it?
That’s it. if you wanna know more you can always reach out to us. suggest us an ideal email for support in our Instagram post. Or just dm us there.