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Re: Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

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Post by domo__knows »

tsumnia wrote: post #60
domo__knows wrote: post #40

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Hey, sorry for getting back to you late. Was watching a bunch of World Cup games. I'll say this: when you log into one of the incumbent social networks like IG/X/SnapChat/Facebook and you see a post that you don't care at all to see, why are you seeing that? It's because they want you to see it. They think that this post with this content and these reactions has the highest chance of making you engage with it and see…

> I see YouTube videos which are basically just rage bait and I'm like, why would I want to support a world where acting in bad faith is the hallmark of a lucrative career Just a tip that helped me here: I'd recommend going through a pretty significant Unsubscribe purge with those channels. I think its something that I ended up doing due to the pandemic, but I realized I was following too many "daily update" channels…

lol yeah. I used YouTube as an example based on what I see people responding to. My actual YouTube feed is pretty good since I use the Unhook chrome extension and almost exclusively watch YouTube on my TV.

Re: Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

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Post by macinjosh »

I want a distributed social network on top of email. Emails don’t have to be human readable. A client could be built to pass and share posts among a network via email messages. Add some clever cryptography and you can build trust networks and keep out spam more reliably.

Re: Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

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Post by zoom6628 »

altmanaltman wrote: post #31
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #30

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> The more I see of social media, the more I'm convinced that it's not really a fulfilling way to share and socialize on the internet. I kinda miss the "old" social media, where it was media and also social... you would open whatever (facebook, myspace, instagram...) and you'd see your friends, plates of what they're eating, some attention seeking statuses, wedding photos, invites to birthdays, etc. I have no idea if…

I think the whole influencer trend ruined it. You literally gave people an incentive to be as loud as possible so they can make as much money as possible. Where is the incentive to connect? Also, Social media sold us the idea that hey you can stay in touch with everyone! But in reality, what is gave people was a new form of communication in broadcasting. In real life, you always directly interact with people or group…

100% agree with this. The whole "influencer" industry (let's be honest it's about manipulating you) is peak enshitification.

I quit twitter cos it became a cesspool. IG needs aggressive curation and keeping notifications off. Even bluesky became rage bait. And only watch a few channels of YouTube thru FreeTube.

Maybe I just old grumpy geek but after nearly 2 decades of social media I've yet to find the "social" part. It is in the main a bucket into which anyone can vomit their media and hysteria du jour.

It was a good experiment but it's done.

Pieces has promise if they can come up with a curation process that matches the ideals of their platform. I truly hope it works out because part of me wants there to be a place online for people to share publicly without fear of doxing or advertising.

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Post by domo__knows »

sherryf123 wrote: post #32

Haha love the video link! Would you consider continuing this as a non-profit?

Definitely for profit, and I think the only way to really do things like this is for profit but with disclosure. The Ghost publishing platform is something I am quite inspire by, however, so I've explored that a bit too.

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Post by domo__knows »

colesantiago wrote: post #59

How do we know this social network will not enshittify? The only social network that hasn't enshittified is most likely Mastodon. Why isn't this social network open source? > PIECES is a product created by a for-profit company, and we are not anti-advertising. Advertising IS a form of enshittification. It is the same model of almost every social network.

I don't agree. Advertising without agreed upon standards is shitty. Back in the day with 30 minute TV programs and 8 minutes of ads, the companies had to utilize their time well. They had to write, hire, research, entertain, etc.,. I still say "WUZZUHHH" to millenial friends.

What we have now on social networks is objectively shit though. Marketers cooking up AI families to sell supplements. Constant A/B testing without any hypotheses which ultimately lead to the extreme forms of clickbait imaginable. I have ideas for doing ads differently but that's a discussion for when we have hundreds of thousands of users, not when we're starting out.

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Post by LoganDark »

holistio wrote: post #27
domo__knows wrote: post #9

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We'll have to open a committee to launch an investigation to produce a report about whether accounts held by Otherkin should be allowed. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

FWIW, I think if you're serious about building, you probably don't have resources to allocate to committees on mental disorders.

Don't even start with this. Being queer is not a mental disorder.

Re: Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

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Post by holistio »

LoganDark wrote: post #67
holistio wrote: post #27

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FWIW, I think if you're serious about building, you probably don't have resources to allocate to committees on mental disorders.

Don't even start with this. Being queer is not a mental disorder.

I didn't say anything about being queer. Also, if you grep the wikipedia page it doesn't include "queer" but it does include "disorder".
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