Personally I'd like a HN/Reddit style threaded >140 char comment interface with Twitter's political figures on it.
Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
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Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#12I just don't see the point of Twitter, what would be the point of a replacement? Honestly, how has the sharing of 140 char thoughts changed the world?
If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product of some kind? How successful is that?
I understand there was a spring uprising of free speech in some places that haven't had much of that. Did that really change things for the better long term in those places?
It just sounds like millions of people shouting things in an echo chamber.
I am not trolling, I really don't understand the medium or the value. What would you miss by not using it?
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#13I'm writing a fresh Twitter. Help me build it. https://foolow.com
I have a few thoughts about what else to try. If you want I can write you a bit about it. I have something in a simmilar state but my back-end partner dropped out and I'm not sure I can learn python quick enough for a prototype. http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/4cc7b319-8094-423d-beef...
A few things I want to try:
- dismiss all seen links on a page (on mobile in my prototype you flick away a page like a card) by default
- sort by rating rod chronologically, but NOT public/democratic rating, only rating by the one who posts. This is the main thing I want to try :)
- auto-retweet (you can make an account that is essentially a currated list of people or curate "editors" of an imaginary magazine)
- if you retweet normally, you have to give a new rating for your followers
Mainly for sharing links. I want to allow people to share unimportant stuff and still getting the important stuff across. And i want to avoid a suggestion engine, only direct "i trust your rating personally" realationships.
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#14Short posts on Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#15gab.ai is the only one I know about, its major selling point being that it's uncensored.
yeah I've heard about it, but there are not yet fully operated. Anyway I'm like on like 110k spot in the queue, so it will take some time till I get there. Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? For example, one of the biggest problems on Twitter is lack of "negative keywords" filter. I like to follow people, but I can't control what they tweet about and I do…
> Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences?
Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specific negative keyword filters, though. If you want to filter the grammies, for example, it takes effect site-wide.
There are a lot of missing features because Gab is still young, but it has promise. I'm a little surprised they haven't opened it up to the public yet. I think they wanted to complete the mobile apps first. Apple's giving them a hard time.
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#16I'm writing a fresh Twitter. Help me build it. https://foolow.com
I have a few thoughts about what else to try. If you want I can write you a bit about it. I have something in a simmilar state but my back-end partner dropped out and I'm not sure I can learn python quick enough for a prototype. http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/4cc7b319-8094-423d-beef... A few things I want to try: - dismiss all seen links on a page (on mobile in my prototype you flick away a page like a card) by…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I went ahead and implemented part of (2): letting the user who posts to rate. I'll work on ranking posts by this score.
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#17I just don't see the point of Twitter, what would be the point of a replacement? Honestly, how has the sharing of 140 char thoughts changed the world? If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product of some kind? How successful is that? I understand there was a spring uprising of free speech in some places that haven't had much of that. Did that really change things for the better lo…
The point doesn't need to be to amass followers. It can be to share knowledge and spread news. There could be a more useful variation in this medium than today's Twitter.
Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#18"Whalesong..."
(Yes, more than one pun in that. But also, semi-seriously -- something that takes and lasts longer than 140 often inflamatory characters.)
Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#19I just don't see the point of Twitter, what would be the point of a replacement? Honestly, how has the sharing of 140 char thoughts changed the world? If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product of some kind? How successful is that? I understand there was a spring uprising of free speech in some places that haven't had much of that. Did that really change things for the better lo…
The point doesn't need to be to amass followers. It can be to share knowledge and spread news. There could be a more useful variation in this medium than today's Twitter. Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.
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Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a few thoughts about what else to try. If you want I can write you a bit about it. I have something in a simmilar state but my back-end partner dropped out and I'm not sure I can learn python quick enough for a prototype. http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/4cc7b319-8094-423d-beef... A few things I want to try: - dismiss all seen links on a page (on mobile in my prototype you flick away a page like a card) by…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I went ahead and implemented part of (2): letting the user who posts to rate. I'll work on ranking posts by this score.
oh wow :) you are quick.
Can I contact you by other means? Email or some instant messaging? I can sent you an invite to my little alpha.
People of course might abuse the rating, so the question is if one should normalize or at least fine-tune by having rating up and down in your own feed. And if you sort just by rating, without decay, a new user sees ooold posts at the top (because he has not dismissed any by going to the next page).