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This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.
This feels more like a feature, not a bug. Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.
Ahhhh a friend and I created a similar idea for startup weekend back in 2014. It was called Let's Get Weird. App would open only from 11p to 4a You were be able to chat and share pics only with nearby people Selfies were upside down, because why not At the end of the day period, pics, chats every thing got deleted and it was a blank slate the next day
I like how this is considered weird. Like, yeah, let’s talk and share our pictures globally in an instant to people we don’t know.
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People have completely lost sight of the importance of small forums.
Forums, perhaps. But small group chats (which I suppose are technically "dark") are the bedrock of the current internet writ large and where most of the content that filters up to places like Twitter comes from.
At least we will benefit from what forums are left in the form of model training data. People give LLMs a lot of shit, but it's possible one day that a language model ends up becoming a go-to oracle of future archeologists studying the present day.
Sometimes it's easy to take for granted how historic the current times are, and how interested people will be in the minuet and institutional knowledge which few bother to expend considerable resources preserving.
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I kind of like the idea of a regional social media app which literally doesn’t work in other parts of the world. It makes the space a little more special than something trying to reach everyone IMO
People have completely lost sight of the importance of small forums.
Hilariously, this reminds me of a governmental department that was hosting its server in-house as a simple PC and available only during working hours (9am-5pm), so when the staff left, they turned it off.
Reminds me of MSN back in the day. When I was a kid, there was a big trend of rushing home after school to log into this chat messenger on the computer, everyone would be online for a couple of hours at least.
This sort of works like Twitch chat. People in the same community login when the streamer is online.
Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
But this social media actually reminded me of old phone line BBS. I believe life was better when we had to wait for our enjoyment, and even stand in line for it.