Weird, there seem to be two android apps for it, one old one with a quite low rating (3.3 / 5): https://www.appbrain.com/app/hello-com/com.hello.application and one launched 3 weeks ago: https://www.appbrain.com/app/hello-com/com.hello.network
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
#92Whilst 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 worr…
Decentralized is the only way to know for sure your data is not being treated server-side against your wishes. This will certainly be the future of the social internet.
However, blockchain is absolutely not the only decentralization support, and might be the worst candidate to store data ever. If your comment about that was not a joke, then maybe you should actualize your knowledge on decentralized algorithms (for example, strong consensus as in the blockchain can be achieved using stellar consensus protocol, and many decentralized services work perfectly using peer to peer technology - not only file sharing).
Also, I find your comment about "Jane Average" quite inappropriate. Anyone can understand it's bad to give too much power to companies whose interests are financial. Moreover, it's inacurate : the current scandal and outfire against Facebook mostly comes from "Jane Average" people, and not the technical community who's mostly saying "we already knew it".
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#93Neat idea, it used to be called friendfeed. Facebook bought it and shot it in the head.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#94First impressions: Bad UI, mobile-only, and seems to be that the feed is filled with Indians. I'm not racist but I don't want to see primarily Indian content.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's worse... Once you've signed up through mobile, you can use it from any browser. Makes you wonder why it wants you to sign up on mobile... Wants your phone number? Wants access to you contacts?
A perfectly good explanation is deterring spammers.
Mobile only signup does nothing to deter spammers.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#96I am not going to any non open source social network again. If self hosted even better. And no closed clients any more.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 worr…
Decentralized is the only way to know for sure your data is not being treated server-side against your wishes. This will certainly be the future of the social internet. However, blockchain is absolutely not the only decentralization support, and might be the worst candidate to store data ever. If your comment about that was not a joke, then maybe you should actualize your knowledge on decentralized algorithms (for ex…
> blockchain is absolutely not the only decentralization support, and might be the worst candidate to store data ever
Thank you! Was about to reply the same thing when I read that comment.
> for example, strong consensus as in the blockchain can be achieved using stellar consensus protocol
I don't really think a social network needs that much consensus. Not for personal data anyway. As you control your own data, there is no need for consensus with others :)
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#98The 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.
Some coverage from 2016:
https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/05/orkut-founder-launches-he...
Today's news burst seems to be that Hello has launched in India.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#99Orkut was so popular in some parts of the world like India that I always wondered why Google thought it better to shut it down. All those orkut users moved to Facebook & made Facebook a hugely popular platform. I hope the same does not happen with Hello.
Re: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
#100You’d think that an app that had the foresight to ask which pronouns their users preferred would not limit it to two options, or at the very least wouldn’t require an answer.
Also strange that an app asking me for my real name isn’t being louder about their stance on privacy at signup (given the present climate).
That said, it feels like mobile-only Reddit, but without the user base.