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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by latexr »

7bit wrote: post #195
croisillon wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one

WDYM? There is exactly one time zone called EST.

The “real” EST means “Eastern Standard Time”. The top commenter thought it was “European Standard Time” which could for instance be equivalent to WET (“Western European Time”). What your parent comment is suggesting is a joke to come up with other definitions which would fit EST to other time zones. E.g. MST (“Mountain Standard Time”) could be EST (“Eagle Summer Time”).

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by latexr »

improbableinf wrote: post #178
neumann wrote: post #161

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genius! [edit] I realised as soon as I pressed send that immediately there will be a service that let's you open 8 accounts and seamlessly operate them as a single one.

That can be a paid feature for business accounts

Thus immediately killing anything good about the project. It’s barely been announced and we’re already brainstorming the shortest path to enshittification.

Things are allowed to exist for fun, most things don’t have to (or should) be concentrated on profit.

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by deadbabe »

simonkagedal wrote: post #118

I think it's a really cool idea. I signed up because I had a brain fart and thought that "EST" was "European Standard Time" (I was of course thinking of CET). So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. This being said – if you…

You could also just use a different time zone each day.

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Post by boutell »

caseyy wrote: post #200

I wish someone made social media where everyone gets one post every day. Almost no person on this planet has more than one bit of news to share daily with their extended social network — probably not even the countries' leaders. When accounts share every 10 minutes, it's often spam or some inorganic agenda. Oversharing in natural social networks is penalized heavily, and for good reason - with too much noise and litt…

I had the same idea and built:

onepostwonder.com

It's been running for over a decade, although the community has always been small.

It's currently invite-only, similar to how LiveJournal used to be, but drop tommybgoode@gmail.com a line and mention this post if you'd like to give it a try and I'll send you an invite, which will include invites to give others you'd like to hang out with.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

caseyy wrote: post #205
Pedro_Ribeiro wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're just describing BeReal, which went viral but kind of died out.

I think BeReal was too restrictive. Considering all the types of content on social media, very little of it is selfies. The goal of that platform is authenticity in a very narrow sense, which is a noble goal.

But it being too restrictive was its unique selling point, like how Twitter's limited post length was.

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Post by Clubber »

Back in the BBS days, SysOps without a second phone line would only have their BBS accept calls at night, after hours. They did this because they used their primary (only) phone line during the day to take and make voice calls. Those BBSes had users but not nearly as many as the people with dedicated BBS phone lines that were open 24 hours. This kinda reminds me of that.

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Post by a13o »

I don’t think volume of engagement is the main issue with social media. Rather, it’s the scope of access. Social media exposes us to too many people and we forget their humanity. Instead of information spreading across the globe along a lattice of trusted relationships, it teleports through bias-confirming wormholes.

Funny enough, the time zone restriction acts as a crude proxy for locality and slightly scratches the itch; more than the time window does.

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