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Re: Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

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Post by encom »

sneak wrote: post #248
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is so real man. I was a massive push in pushing everyone to use signal but I could only convince 2-3 of my friends and literally now there is only 1 single friend of mine who is on signal.. Whereas on insta dm, literally all of my friends are there, mostly 24x7 active. I just used bleeper to sometimes interact with them. I think it made my mental health definitely more saner/net gain I care about my privacy enou…

If your friends can’t install a free app and type in their phone number and an auth code (literally takes 30 seconds) to talk to you privately, they aren’t your friends. (I have no other messengers and have recruited about a hundred people to use Signal, including much of the Vegas cash game poker scene.) Quality over quantity is important always, but is of utmost importance when it comes to personal associations. De…

The Signal desktop app is awful. I refuse to use it for this reason alone, because any time I need to write a lot, I switch to a computer because I can write 100 times faster on an actual keyboard.

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Post by rcfox »

cj wrote: post #264
heresie-dabord wrote: post #262

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> potential friends Hmm. So it's the perceived "best place" as a default. Is there some "discoverability" feature as well?

He means in real life. You’re at a bar. You meet someone. They ask for your insta username to follow/message you. Making friends and meeting people is hard enough for most people. The added friction of not being reachable on the platforms people use every day for messaging isn’t ideal. It’s not ideal to say “Sorry, I’m philosophically against social media so I can’t give you a username, you’ll have to text me” - and…

But why not just email?

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Post by adrianhacar »

OfflineSergio wrote: post #16

If this works as you say in iOS you would be my new hero! Joined the wait list, would be happy to be part of any test you like to run.

Awesome! Feel free to email me at scrollguard [at] breakthescroll.com and I’ll add you when I have a beta ready.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

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Post by adrianhacar »

collin128 wrote: post #205

Love it. Do you have a way of supporting you?

Thanks a lot! You can upgrade to the Pro version in the app, it’s a one-time payment for lifetime access to some extra features. If you have something else in mind, feel free to email me!

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #284
diggan wrote: post #267

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> What is the reason for the popular appeal of using Instagram for messaging? Same reason people use any social network: because your friends, family and/or people you otherwise/somehow care about are there.

Sure, but why Instagram specifically? Is this just first-mover/early-mover advantage or is IG better at something?

I think that's because that for me personally, I am genz and my generation / my school friends are just hooked up onto it. Literally 99% of my schoolmates were there.

It was the only way that I can keep in touch with my schoolmates / friends for years and though I have their number, we don't have any group chat aside from instagram and I use beeper to actually make it sane to use

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Post by alsetmusic »

rcfox wrote: post #303
cj wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He means in real life. You’re at a bar. You meet someone. They ask for your insta username to follow/message you. Making friends and meeting people is hard enough for most people. The added friction of not being reachable on the platforms people use every day for messaging isn’t ideal. It’s not ideal to say “Sorry, I’m philosophically against social media so I can’t give you a username, you’ll have to text me” - and…

But why not just email?

This question feels out of touch and I'm in my mid-forties.

Yesterday, I saw a couple moving musical equipment into my building and asked who was the musician. The person said I could find them on Insta. I had hoped they'd be on Soundcloud, as I'm a musician and post my music there. Insta is what a lot of young people use.

Before the pan, someone I matched with on a dating app rejected me when I told them I don't have social media accounts. She accused me of being a psycho (saved me from a bad first date). This is how a lot of younger people (she was like 10y younger than me) see the world.

Email is for corpses, at least that's what I think they'd say if you suggested it. Someone up the chain talked about classmates. I'd expect they are a younger demographic and the email stink would apply.

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Post by heresie-dabord »

alsetmusic wrote: post #308
rcfox wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why not just email?

This question feels out of touch and I'm in my mid-forties. Yesterday, I saw a couple moving musical equipment into my building and asked who was the musician. The person said I could find them on Insta. I had hoped they'd be on Soundcloud, as I'm a musician and post my music there. Insta is what a lot of young people use. Before the pan, someone I matched with on a dating app rejected me when I told them I don't hav…

> rejected me when I told them I don't have social media accounts. She accused me of being a psycho (saved me from a bad first date). This is how a lot of younger people (she was like 10y younger than me) see the world.

Wow. This is like a Black Mirror episode.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

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Post by madamelic »

SoftTalker wrote: post #200
madamelic wrote: post #84

Better suggestion: block these sites entirely. Reddit and YouTube are wastes of time if you are just 'checking in'. Use YouTube-DL to download videos from specific creators and watch independently. I haven't figured out how to view the actually useful subreddits without having access to the frontpage feeds. Feeds are one of the worst things to be invented in the Internet age. I can't imagine how far behind we are bec…

> I haven't figured out how to view the actually useful subreddits without having access to the frontpage feeds. Maybe I don’t understand what you mean but I follow about 3 subreddits and I just go directly to them in a browser. I don’t use their app.

Yes, that is really the problem. The landing page is just a smorgasbord of things to rile you up, distract you, draw you in, etc.

I've tried filtering it, I've tried unsubscribing to all subreddits save for a few, nothing worked.

Part of it is likely my own personality (I get bored and go on for "just a minute") but also, Reddit is designed, like all social media, to keep you engaged. Your method is best.

I actually designed a minimalist Reddit client that did exactly that, you had no homepage, it was just a search box where you typed in the subreddit name and it took you right to a minimalist interface (no big images, no names, black and white interface, no voting, etc). I've been meaning to revive it but haven't got around to it.

The nice thing for me was that I made the URL structure identical to reddit so it was as easy as swapping "reddit.com" to "reddit.qnzl.co" in a URL and it just worked.

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