Awesome. I wish Instagram was still this way.
Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
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#42I like how it's all in the browser. I'm sick everything requiring an app download. Still, you should be able to just use it from the Desktop. Why force people?
Also, why do you need access to my microphone? I really want to post something. I am alone this holiday. But I don't want to give you access to my microphone. Why do you need it? It just looks like text and photos. If I deny access, I can't do anything.
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#43Ironic that Facebook is not doing this job!
How could it? No one trusts it. It is literally impossible for Facebook to ever provide an anonymous service of any kind, because they will always be able to implement some algorithm to at least try and associate you with your real identity.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall.
> My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall. There was no nitpicking or cherry picking. The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. I pointed out that being alone is not a sickness. I supported this with three healthy comments from the very first page of the site. Instead of actually discussing, you have t…
Original comment I responded to:
“Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.”
You said...
The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness.
Your selective reading is actually impressive in its way, and seems either deliberate or deluded.
Edit: Ah downvotes, the currency of the struck nerve.
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#45As an INFP persona who has worked remotely and solo for many years, I'd like to break the stigma that "alone = bad". I find it incredibly energising a lot of the time, but then there are the odd times when I crave a little human social engagement. Traditional social media channels have devolved into a cesspit of noisy pollution, but I tend to occasionally post right here on HN, guitar forums, or even on obscure Reddi…
I think there's a difference betweek being alone and being lonely. The latter implies that you're wanting for company, the former less so.
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#46Not sure if this is terribly awesome or immensely sad
Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.
This makes me think of grouphug.us (now gone) which was a pretty neat concept and was reborn/reinvented a couple of different times before the author finally took it down.
Overall, grouphug was a really cool site with a lot of neat statements.
I feel like the way sharesolo is designed helps in promoting a variety of different posts, with the photos/instagram feel behind it. Promoting it during the holidays will also have an interesting dynamic. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what people post.
Although there are some implementation aspects I don't like, I really do like the concept and the layout.
sidenote: For some reason it asks Firefox mobile for microphone access, but I was able to post something by using the web panels in Vivaldi desktop.
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#47Just curious are you aware of a quite similar Chinese app which have been running some time? it is called "BaoBao"
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#48My pessimistic prediction is that this will either die or be overrun with the alt-right. They seem to gravitate towards the more anonymous social networks (4chan, yik yak). Also see "unpopular opinion puffin" memes on reddit -- a (now dead) meme format designed for people to share what they're afraid to say out loud to their peers, and quickly became a hub for alt-righty opinions on social issues.
Anonymity also permitted the American Revolution, among other things. Meanwhile the most prominent example that comes to mind for attempts to end even the pretense of anonymity online is authoritarian China. And fwiw, most of the other boards on 4chan at least tend to push the more obnoxious sorts of commentary back to /pol/, its 'containment board'. Twitter likewise tends to isolate communities of extremists, on bot…
not sure anyone's attacking the right to anonymity, but it would be somewhat dishonest to ignore what has come recently from the most anon communities on the internet.
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#49Couldn't help thinking of this:
"If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone." (https://despair.com/products/loneliness)
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#50Couldn't help thinking of this: "If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone." ( https://despair.com/products/loneliness )
Joking aside, it seems like a great idea for an app.