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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by latexr »

fsflover wrote: post #58
latexr wrote: post #43

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> why not just use the existing social networks? Because you don’t control the existing social network, meaning you can’t exploit and profit from the users in a group¹, which is the whole point of making a digital social networks². ¹ And if you do find a way, the parent network will simply eat you up. ² Outside of a few truly ideological non-profits.

> ² Outside of a few truly ideological non-profits. So the question stays the same: why is this not just a Mastodon server?

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by ciwrl »

latexr wrote: post #61
fsflover wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ² Outside of a few truly ideological non-profits. So the question stays the same: why is this not just a Mastodon server?

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I cannot tolerate comments like this one. I’m aware of what was the NFT shit stuff, if you check my art stuff you can find that are just wallpapers made with processing without any profit but made just because I like art in every form. Second, I actually do not have any profit idea, maybe in the future some tinder style card banner for ads, obv not now that I have just a POC.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by aaron695 »

dennisy wrote: post #28

I love this and wanted to build this - but https://www.alphaxiv.org/ already exists, and it gets no social action (hardly any papers have comments), so this makes me doubtful about this. I am interested to hear if anyone knows why the format may not resonate with researchers or those reading papers in general? My own reason is that to get value from a "social" site the number of interactions has to be high and of a f…

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by latexr »

ciwrl wrote: post #62
latexr wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I cannot tolerate comments like this one. I’m aware of what was the NFT shit stuff, if you check my art stuff you can find that are just wallpapers made with processing without any profit but made just because I like art in every form. Second, I actually do not have any profit idea, maybe in the future some tinder style card banner for ads, obv not now that I have just a POC.

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by some_some_2 »

wrong social network model for this domain. hard science are already loosing credibility for incremental/redundant publishing on fashionable topics - such network would accelerate this. indeed also agree that short attention does not fit to complex topics. if AI was the client attention span in time units is also not the right model, I found agents do not have a good sense of time required for their work.
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