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Decentralised social networks are a bad idea. Communication tools need to be inclusive and open to everyone, especially laypeople. Decentralised tools and blockchain turn off non-t…

Thanks to the HN community for helpful feedback in the past! London, UK: A small team is launching Lyra, an open platform for online conversations which challenges traditional soci…

It has to do, as you mentioned, with the amount of text. Whatever land you're wrapped up in, I hope everything is awesome there, too.

We did research the name in advance and we're happy with it; we're not concerned that another company shares it.

Lyra values language and aims to be an effective tool for large conversations; we're not worried about large amounts of text. We especially don't want to patronise users by hiding …

We bow only to the Hypnotoad.

Thanks, this is excellent feedback. - It's OK to have a small learning curve; we think users will be OK with the menu symbol. - We've thought extensively about whether to show cont…

We approach a completely different use case to Livejournal: hierarchical conversations rather than broadcast blogging.

Exactly! We agree that email and newsgroups do not have the most useful or accessible UI, and aim to offer a much better design. Needless to say, our design is constantly improving…

Thanks, we will add a page about the team. We have been thinking carefully about whether to include a public conversation feed. Public communications are not Lyra's central use cas…

A quest to remain "more interesting" leads to constantly changing platforms, dark patterns, and intrusive notifications. A useful and effective platform enables communication in a …

These aren't developments that should be encouraged. The political influence of targeted advertising on social media has encouraged and enabled several nationalist movements. We be…

Yes, we did! Self-promotion in a relevant context (in a discussion of a worsening problem which affects many) is a very different undertaking than paid, off-topic advertising.

Thanks for the advice, we've been staying under the radar on HN recently but we honestly feel really strongly about this. We're a nonprofit, have been sinking lots of cash into thi…

As a nonprofit, we operate on grants and revenue alone, not investment. We'd love to hear some specific feedback on what you think could be improved about our UI :) We also think w…

I know it's hard to see it this way when one is into tech, but many of my non-tech friends (artists, philosophers, retail...) would balk at this. We believe using a communication t…

One of our team members used to do this job; luckily, she managed to do it with deep learning, so didn't have to spend too much time looking at unpleasant images. This experience i…

It's absolutely hearbreaking to see the independence, critical thinking and self-determination that Western society has been building up since the Enlightenment, weakening under th…

An open conversation service needs to be open to all, not just people with tech skills; we need to prevent large numbers of people feeling locked out of discourse, or left behind. …

Our team (mostly cognitive scientists and engineers) is nostalgic about the past of online communication and concerned about its future. Our platform, Lyra, provides support for ef…

Exactly! As cognitive psychologists, this is what we are trying to fight with Lyra: a nonprofit conversation service which respects attention. www.hellolyra.com/introduction

This is what we are trying to rectify with Lyra, a conversation and debate service which respects the user's attention. Our team is led by a cognitive neuroscientist working on att…

This is what we are trying to rectify with Lyra, a conversation and debate service which respects the user's attention. Our team is led by a cognitive neuroscientist working on att…