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Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

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Re: Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

#11

Being anonymous by default (like 4chan) and allow the user to reveal his identity case by case.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Can you please elaborate 'allow the user to reveal his identity case by case.' Through an example.

It will help me a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

#15
All the federated stuff (e.g. based on ActivityPub) is quite interesting right now. Mastodon has done the "Twitter clone" quite well IMHO, but other aspects are missing, e.g. more private/closed things, like groups or (big thing when talking to Facebook users) event planning: invites, RSVPs, ...

Re: Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

#17

Add a functionality to allow users to "endorse" a publication as a verified truth, and heavily warn when that many users have seen it and not "endorsed" it. Somebody has to put a stop at fake news, anti-vaccine campaigns, homeopathy...

Cool one. thanks for this.

Re: Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

#19
Easily offer an export of your own data and simple deletion method that truly does remove any trace of you ever using the social network.

This includes all messages sent, comments made, events created, posts liked, etc. Yes, this means handling "What if two people had a conversation or it's a group conversation with multiple people? What happens to those messages?" I say for sure delete the message all across the board from the person who asked for the deletion but retain the rest of the group. If it's only two people, completely delete the conversation/thread as if it never existed.

Re: Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network

#20

Being anonymous by default (like 4chan) and allow the user to reveal his identity case by case.

Thank you for the suggestion. Can you please elaborate 'allow the user to reveal his identity case by case.' Through an example. It will help me a lot.

On 4chan, you can sign posts with a name and password you choose and it will show a hash of the password beside the name. This hash can be useful to prove the same identity (or an easy password) across multiple posts.
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