Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

johnday wrote: post #3

The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

The jokes practically write themselves...

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by bifrost » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

johnday wrote: post #3

The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

Maybe its for "Social-Ists"?

Like a weird way of saying people who like to be social?

And hopefully not the kind of socialism that Russia/DPRC employ, that would be the worst of all worlds.

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by giancarlostoro » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:20 PM UTC

natechols wrote: post #4

johnday wrote: post #3

The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

The jokes practically write themselves...

I was going go comment "it doesnt work" but I didnt want people to think I was making fun of the political ideology instead of reiterating the website not working.

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by anigbrowl » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:23 PM UTC

OP, if you're bootstrapping this thing at a tiny scale it looks like you've just been hit with the 'HN hug of death' as the wide readership of the website often yields a huge surge of incoming traffic to anything which lands on the front page.

While someone else sorts this problem out (or you just wait for it to subside) perhaps you could explain the concept and goals here in the meantime. Don't feel bad, this happens to lots of people.

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by WarDores » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

natechols wrote: post #4

johnday wrote: post #3

The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

The jokes practically write themselves...

Someone else was supposed to pick up the bandwidth tab.

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by lukifer » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:25 PM UTC

johnday wrote: post #3

The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

Not only does socialism suffer from a "No True Scotsman" problem (there is a wide disparity, from within and without, regarding what the term means), I dare say that's true of just about every -ism under the sun. (TODO: invent a political ideology that includes a formal specification.) :)

Re: Show HN: A Socialist Social Network

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Post by bifrost » Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:27 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

natechols wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The jokes practically write themselves...

I was going go comment "it doesnt work" but I didnt want people to think I was making fun of the political ideology instead of reiterating the website not working.

Keyboard Stalin once said -> "The loss of one click is tragic, but the loss of thousands is statistic."