# What about medium tech? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [June 22, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207 "2024-06-22T17:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![icaria36](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207/4 "2024-06-23T06:24:32Z")
> [@simon](#): > > How can non-technical people be made aware that there are viable alternatives How viable are these alternatives seen by the target future admins and their potential users? [Discourse.org](http://Discourse.org) offers an instance for $50/month. For many it’s a tall call to start an experiment when you don’t even know whether you will be able to pull any users out of their FB / X / Insta / etc cages, which are free of charge. [WordPress.com](http://WordPress.com) starts at $4. Masto.host starts at $6. That’s more like it. The out of the box experience for admins is overwhelming for the average non-tech entrepreneur. Too many features they won’t need any time soon. Same for users even at trust level 0. Most non-tech users feel intimidated by Discourse during their first days, even if they are fluent social media & instant messaging users, publishing their pics, audios, and what not. Non-tech people in their 20s and 30s with a PhD and a social or political drive also get intimidated or confused at first. Imagine a [Discourse.org](http://Discourse.org) dumbed down version to match i.e. Facebook Groups’ admin and user experience except for some existing features like social logins and UI customization. Free for three months and then $5/month until you hit some ceiling of success (active users, more complex features, own domain…) that makes you want to upgrade. And imagine your plan continues to be free / heavily discounted if you join Discourse Network, enabling [Discourse.org](http://Discourse.org) social login to allow other Discourse users to seamlessly join your site, and featuring banners / promotion from other Discourse sites that the alghoritm defines as close to your community. Your Discourse will be promoted in other instances as well! Easy start, easy expansion, easy to get promoted to likeminded users… This is the promise done by the corporate social media, totally appealing to human psyche. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207)._