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Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by riffic »

gchamonlive wrote: post #226

Social Networks should be like email providers. You choose one that fits you best, or deploy your own, without having to worry not being able to communicate with others. Maybe we are long overdue for an open standard protocol for social interactions on the web. If you come to think of it, when the personal data itself isn't the property of the company behind the social network, there should be no reason not to share…

> Maybe we are long overdue for an open standard protocol for social interactions on the web

This exists as a W3C recommendation (ActivityPub), and before that you had pioneers working on things like StatusNet and GNU Social, way back in 2008.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by newsclues »

nightski wrote: post #205
bityard wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP but I think the answer for this is that communication of medical/health issues is best handled by a more private form of media.

I don't have skin in this game and will probably never use it anyways, but to me that is a non starter for this whole project. Why would I want to limit how often my friends can post? The problem with FB isn't that my friends post to much, it's that I never see what my friends post.

Why would I want to limit my speed in my own car?

Because others exist

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by charcircuit »

xixixao wrote: post #91
charcircuit wrote: post #37

One big issue with this model is that you can't build an audience. You can't make friends. What's the point of using the site when all of your posts go to the void. Even if you add a friend all of those posts you worked hard on are gone. If it takes a long time before there is new content to see, why would people visit the site instead of forgetting about it? How are you going to make it a rabbit for people to go the…

This is true for messaging social networks and they thrive. I don’t think this is necessarily a huge blocker.

No, take for example Discord. It's easy to find servers with people who share your interests.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by judge2020 »

darawk wrote: post #43

As other people have mentioned but I think not quite nailed perfectly, restrictions on behavior aren't quite the right solution to the problems that plague social media. Some people think that the right move is to eliminate engagement optimization algorithms, and I think that's not quite exactly right either. IMO the right solution is personal executive autonomy over content presentation and algorithmic optimization.…

While I think this helps, Twitter has their 'lists' feature that effectively allows you to choose what timeline you want to view at any point; the only difference with your post is that it's not forced upon you, and perhaps you envision platform uses some ML model to classify posts from people you never follow. As it stands, people don't like the friction that comes with needing to hand-pick people to put into different twitter lists, so the feature is largely unused.

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Post by jimkleiber »

hannofcart wrote: post #248
jimkleiber wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I've been yearning for platforms really to just let me control the database query, basically. I want to be able to create custom filters/sorts/queries, or even choose some from an algorithm store, that lets me control how I view things. For example, on Twitter, I love having the "latest tweets" option. But maybe I want to also have "only tweets from verified people with over 100 retweets from other verified peop…

> Makes me wonder what are the main reasons they don't implement such options to help us better choose how we see the data... Rather than anything nefarious, I think it might simply be down to the fact that it doesn't justify the engineering effort it would take to create a feed algo store or repo like you suggest considering how few people might actually use that feature. The vast majority of people out there likely…

Maybe I overestimate how many people would use even simple sorting and filtering options if given the option.

Makes me wonder, how many people do you think have filters/rules/folders on their Gmail or other email inboxes? I assume a majority have some but maybe not.

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Post by headsoup »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #9

Hey everyone, OP here. I, like many others tend to waffle between loving and hating social media, so this is my take on what I think a better solution looks like. This is something I've been working on for the past couple of months and a concept that I think will be though provoking, if nothing else, to the HN community. If you want to read more on my thoughts and the story behind this, you can check out my blog post…

I think perhaps an option is not to limit how often people can post, but limit how little they post, i.e. there is a minimum word limit for each post. Add the 'like' options for any general short response (agree, like, love, sad, angry, +1, haha, shock, thanks, etc), but having a minimum demands at least some effort into posting.

The obvious problem is people just posting /10char type responses to hit the character limit, but if it's a word limit with some AI that can recognise 'bad' patterns in structure it could be mitigated to an extent.

You could add a grammar checker and advise corrections or perhaps prompt to improve the message if particularly poor. This would be implemented for public posts only, because for private conversations it is not so relevant to positive discourse.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by sacrosancty »

darawk wrote: post #43

As other people have mentioned but I think not quite nailed perfectly, restrictions on behavior aren't quite the right solution to the problems that plague social media. Some people think that the right move is to eliminate engagement optimization algorithms, and I think that's not quite exactly right either. IMO the right solution is personal executive autonomy over content presentation and algorithmic optimization.…

Your ideas and the OPs sound like solving drug addiction by offering a new less addictive drug. Obviously the addicts will continue using the addictive ones! I think the social problems can only be solved by legislation because the existence of even one Facebook is already the problem.

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Post by fastball »

In this vein, an app I've been using with some friends is BeReal[1]. It is intended to be more of an Instagram substitute rather than this which feels a bit more like a substitute for Facebook.

The idea with BeReal is that every day you get a notification at some random time (it changes every day). When you get the notification, you have 2 minutes to post what you're doing at the time. The app takes one picture of your environment with the main camera and one of you with the front-facing camera.

It's not perfect and if I was developing it there are a couple things I would probably change to keep a little more in the spirit of "being real", but it's a fun thing to be on with friends.

[1] https://bere.al

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