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    <title>flove making-of — Economy questions</title>
    <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html</link>
    <description>New Economy design questions from flove interviews.</description>
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      <title>Free-vs-stars posture (flove is FOSS)?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q35</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Passwords granted at contributing stages — As you accomplish contribution STAGES you're granted passwords that unlock protected page-sections. Access earned by contributing, not bought.
• Apps free; stars unlock scale/premium — Apps free; stars unlock resource-heavy capabilities only.
• Tiered free core + star-gated apps — Most apps free; some need a star unlock.
• Stars unlock each app — Each app costs stars to open; least FOSS-aligned.

★ decided: Passwords granted at contributing stages</description>
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      <title>Unlock model?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q36</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• One-time, owned forever — Reach a stage once, keep the access permanently.
• Metered / pay-as-you-go — Spend per use of a heavy capability.
• Subscription — Recurring cost to keep a capability; least aligned.

★ decided: One-time, owned forever</description>
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      <title>What advances you through stages?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q37</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Contribution, gated by trust floors — Contribution-driven, but sensitive stages (donation-directing, top tier) need a minimum trust floor — no advancing by raw resource-dumping.
• Contribution-only — Pure contribution milestones; clean separation.
• Blended contribution + standing — Every stage needs both contribution and a tier.

★ decided: Contribution, gated by trust floors</description>
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      <title>Donation directing — what can you direct?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q38</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Both (earmark own + steward pool) — Earmark your own contributions early; steward the shared pool at expert+.
• Steward the shared commons — Allocate the pooled/donated commons; high-trust power.
• Earmark your own — Direct only what you contribute.

★ decided: Both (earmark own + steward pool)</description>
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      <title>Directing — standing policy or per-donation?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q39</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Standing default + per-donation override — Set a default ('mostly to close'), override on any single donation.
• Standing policy only — One policy until changed; set-and-forget.
• Per-donation only — Direct each donation explicitly; more friction.

★ decided: Standing default + per-donation override</description>
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      <title>In 'only' mode, if the target can't absorb it?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q40</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Fall back to the shared pool — Surplus flows to the commons rather than sitting idle; softens 'only' but never wastes.
• Hold / queue for the target — Waits until the target can use it; strict.
• Return to donor — Reverts to you to redirect.

★ decided: Fall back to the shared pool</description>
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      <title>Directing transparency?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q41</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Donor decides — Each donor sets per-donation: public ledger / contributor-visible / private. A steward can't override it.
• Public ledger — All directing visible; max accountability.
• known-visible — Only pool contributors see allocation.
• Private — Allocation not surfaced.

★ decided: Donor decides</description>
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      <title>How does the donation pool fill?</title>
      <link>https://flove.org/making-of.html#nety-spec_q42</link>
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      <category>nety-spec</category>
      <category>Economy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>• Purely voluntary — Only what peers explicitly donate; most free-as-in-freedom, may be thin.
• Voluntary + small auto-tithe — Mostly voluntary + ~2–5% tithe so the pool always exists.
• Surplus / unclaimed flows in — Idle offered resources auto-flow to the pool.
• Voluntary + surplus — Explicit donations + idle surplus, no tithe on used resources.

★ decided: Purely voluntary</description>
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