Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
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Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#2Whilst the founder has credibility in this space, I don't see what the problem is they are solving. There are many communities all across the internet, and also in centralised places like Facebook & reddit. Forums still remain hugely popular for niche community operators.
The only way social is going to work and be improved going forward is through decentralisation and taking our data out of the hands of a central repository where it can be used to target us, and is more vulnerable to breaches. Once we have that baseline the other problems can be solved by the communities themselves.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#3this seems better executed than the aesthetic disaster that is ello.co, so props to that
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#4With all of the news about Facebook hijacking content from mobile phones I do wish all of these new social networks would come with a website I can use, at least to test the waters
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#5Still can't signup if not in the list of supported countries.
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#6The initial release was in 2016. The post on the home page is from 2017.
They are all over the news today... good timing I guess.
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#7I didn't know that Google shut down Orkut. Why did they shut down a network with such a large userbase? Was it focused on dating?
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#8Whilst the founder has credibility in this space, I don't see what the problem is they are solving. There are many communities all across the internet, and also in centralised places like Facebook & reddit. Forums still remain hugely popular for niche community operators. The only way social is going to work and be improved going forward is through decentralisation and taking our data out of the hands of a central re…
I don’t understand the decentralized part of your comment. There’s a reason Facebook and perhaps AOL before it was successful - it’s easy and everyone is there.
I’m a huge privacy advocate but the decentralized Facebook alternatives are a little wonky for most to get their heads around. Jane Average user could care less about blockchain hosted personal data. In most cases Jane just wants Facebook and is a little worried about what’s happening to her data. Facebook maybe more than any other alternative is in the best position to solve the user problem here.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#9Whilst the founder has credibility in this space, I don't see what the problem is they are solving. There are many communities all across the internet, and also in centralised places like Facebook & reddit. Forums still remain hugely popular for niche community operators. The only way social is going to work and be improved going forward is through decentralisation and taking our data out of the hands of a central re…
> Whilst the founder has credibility in this space, I don't see what the problem is they are solving.
I imagine his problem is: he wants to make money :)
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#10I didn't know that Google shut down Orkut. Why did they shut down a network with such a large userbase? Was it focused on dating?
iirc, lawsuits and people started to migrate to Facebook.