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Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by maxaf »

mholt wrote: post #15
maxaf wrote: post #12

I could shell out $13/mo, or, you know... not use a social network. I don't use one now, and I'm doing just fine.

HN is a social network

HN isn't a social network. It's centered around topics (articles, Show/Ask HN, ...) rather than individuals. There's no way for me to follow or contact a particular user.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by michaelmrose »

I would prefer a decentralized social network based on boxes you plug into your router with content shared in a way that fellow users bear the weight of shared content like torrents.

You could rent the box or buy outright with money to develop paid for by a premium on the box or by the rent wherein even a modest rent would outstrip the cost of buying like a cable box.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by workthrowaway »

mholt wrote: post #15
maxaf wrote: post #12

I could shell out $13/mo, or, you know... not use a social network. I don't use one now, and I'm doing just fine.

HN is a social network

is it? i mean there were online boards and forums that had this comments/replies structure, joel on software anyone?. well minus the points. but those were never called social networks...

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by hollerith »

maxaf wrote: post #21
mholt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is a social network

HN isn't a social network. It's centered around topics (articles, Show/Ask HN, ...) rather than individuals. There's no way for me to follow or contact a particular user.

>There's no way for me to follow . . . a particular user

So this is not good enough for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=maxaf

Is that because there is no way to get notified by email when a new comment is made by the user?

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by pwinnski »

mholt wrote: post #15
maxaf wrote: post #12

I could shell out $13/mo, or, you know... not use a social network. I don't use one now, and I'm doing just fine.

HN is a social network

To call HN a social network is to redefine the term to apply to any website that allows comments.

It's really not.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by asah »

ishanjain28 wrote: post #25

This just makes me think why do I need a social network. I never did anything remotely useful on Facebook/Instagram(Although, Twitter is useful). Why would I want to use this?

keeping in touch with family & friends - email, MMS, etc don't work.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by raincom »

ishanjain28 wrote: post #25

This just makes me think why do I need a social network. I never did anything remotely useful on Facebook/Instagram(Although, Twitter is useful). Why would I want to use this?

Now one can follow celebrities on instagram, facebook with their daily updates:)
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