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Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

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Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

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gucduck wrote: post #9
verdverm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That’s fair feedback. This is increasingly looking like the tell tale for Ai bots masquerading as humans. I've heard essentially this phrase as the first in several recent interactions which ended up being bots. Can you prove your humanity? Bots and agents are not allowed on HN

Oh that's just part of my vocabulary. lol. Um, my username is gucduck on all socials if that helps? And this is my personal website: gucduck.com

I've been dealing with clawd spam, and likely being more/overly sensitive to it

it's good vocab and writing to have! I wonder how much longer we will have easy indicators

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#12

Post by verdverm »

gucduck wrote: post #6
verdverm wrote: post #4

I get the concept, but why is this interesting to HN? The page has very little about how it works (security / trust / identity), there is nothing about tech stack or open source. These are going to be paramount in any civics platform, b/c transparency and the trust-pocolipse.

That’s fair feedback. I’ve updated the post to include a section with more implementation details. It’s currently built with Next.js and Firebase. Responses are stored separately from identity data, there are no public profiles, and only aggregate results are exposed in the UI. Verification is used to increase resistance to bots, but answers are not tied to public identity. I agree that any civic platform lives or di…

There are people working on similar ideas in the ATmosphere / ATProto, are you tuned into that at all?

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#13

Post by gucduck »

verdverm wrote: post #12
gucduck wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s fair feedback. I’ve updated the post to include a section with more implementation details. It’s currently built with Next.js and Firebase. Responses are stored separately from identity data, there are no public profiles, and only aggregate results are exposed in the UI. Verification is used to increase resistance to bots, but answers are not tied to public identity. I agree that any civic platform lives or di…

There are people working on similar ideas in the ATmosphere / ATProto, are you tuned into that at all?

I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#14

Post by gucduck »

verdverm wrote: post #11
gucduck wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh that's just part of my vocabulary. lol. Um, my username is gucduck on all socials if that helps? And this is my personal website: gucduck.com

I've been dealing with clawd spam, and likely being more/overly sensitive to it it's good vocab and writing to have! I wonder how much longer we will have easy indicators

No worries, I appreciate the intention. It definitely feels like we’re getting close to not having any easy indicators whatsoever.

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#15

Post by verdverm »

gucduck wrote: post #13
verdverm wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are people working on similar ideas in the ATmosphere / ATProto, are you tuned into that at all?

I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.

AT has people generally working on the next generation of shared infra for social and much more. Come join us!

https://discord.atprotocol.dev (should work, best entrypoint to the dev community)

I like sharing this one for new devs: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#16

Post by verdverm »

gucduck wrote: post #14
verdverm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been dealing with clawd spam, and likely being more/overly sensitive to it it's good vocab and writing to have! I wonder how much longer we will have easy indicators

No worries, I appreciate the intention. It definitely feels like we’re getting close to not having any easy indicators whatsoever.

They are now writing their HN launch readmes before any code...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009000

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#17

Post by gucduck »

verdverm wrote: post #15
gucduck wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.

AT has people generally working on the next generation of shared infra for social and much more. Come join us! https://discord.atprotocol.dev (should work, best entrypoint to the dev community) I like sharing this one for new devs: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

Consider me an ATProto Toucher :)

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#18

Post by verdverm »

gucduck wrote: post #17
verdverm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AT has people generally working on the next generation of shared infra for social and much more. Come join us! https://discord.atprotocol.dev (should work, best entrypoint to the dev community) I like sharing this one for new devs: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

Consider me an ATProto Toucher :)

lol, changing that name has been bikeshed a number of times

Re: Show HN: Civie. Anonymous civic questions. Open results. No yelling

#20

Post by gucduck »

uhmdoesthiswork wrote: post #19

this is interesting, what was your biggest motivation for building this? had you been thinking of this longer than the recent current events related to civic unrest in the US?

Appreciate that. I’ve thought about anonymous polling before, but the real push came from doomscrolling earlier this year. IG and TikTok were both feeding me nonstop political US content weeks on end, and I started feeling restless and helpless. Didn’t want to just keep consuming, but wanted to add my voice somehow, so I decided to build something. That urgency is what finally got me moving.
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