This is very interesting. Does anyone else have concepts for anti-social networks?
Special.fish
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dead fish tends to float up. Just saying.
Typical human cultural prejudice! In fish culture “down” is of course the direction in which one falls, and this is correctly depicted in the image. It’s a common confusion, as Down vs Up is more nuanced in Fish culture. Fish technology is extremely under developed: imagine inventing the screwdriver, having it slip through your fins, and it immediately floating “up” into oblivion. Debate is still ongoing as to if thi…
This genuinely looks like it could have been generated by GPT-2 and now I can't tell.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cached version of the site is up again. Working on clearing up auth issues now. Stay tuned... Update: Okay we are back! Implementing more caching but should be working for now.
Is Random now cached? I always stumble upon the same guy.
Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.
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#34The first time I stumbled upon Special Fish was in the first comment on another HN thread titled "Rediscovering The Small Web" [1], so if you find Special Fish interesting you may also like some other things mentioned there. I spent a couple of hours sufring the site and various personal pages linked within some profiles. From my small sample, it seemed to be popular among some sort of lo-fi designer/technoartist cro…
Thanks for the feedback. This is something I've been thinking about a bit since launching it. I don't think SF necessarily does anything new or hooks users and I'm okay with that. I actually intended the site be more focused around the lists, but people really seem to enjoy logging their day-to-day lives. Personally, I like reading these automatic thoughts from strangers. Many people talk about quarantine routines, life goals, and ongoing projects. It's cool to see all this overlap in how people are thinking right now. So again, nothing new here, just a slightly different approach to a community website.
I totally understand your hesitance on registering an account. There are so many ways of blogging/journaling on the web already. I actually think it's a good site to browse without ever needing an account. I'm looking at added RSS soon so you won't even need to really visit and can use something like Fraidycat to check in.
Also, SF was mentioned on Kicks Condor recently [1]. I like how they talked about the site... "but it hadn’t even occurred to me to make a social network that is just a directory". I hadn't really thought of SF as just a directory either, but I like the idea that its only purpose is to be a directory of people doing DIY stuff on the web.
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#35Seems to be dead. ° ° ° °
Dead fish tends to float up. Just saying.
Actually, there are several factors which could influence whether a dead fish sinks or floats, for example the cause of death, the phase of decay or kind of fish.
I chose this depiction because it is easier to convey in ASCII art that the fish is dead.
I also took the artistic liberty of adding some escaping air bubbles, although fish don't breathe.
Anyway, the fish seems to be alive again.
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#36It's a good day to visit Hacker News. Lots of interesting and insightful submissions, including this one.
I especially get a kick out of creative domain names. This is one of my favorites.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typical human cultural prejudice! In fish culture “down” is of course the direction in which one falls, and this is correctly depicted in the image. It’s a common confusion, as Down vs Up is more nuanced in Fish culture. Fish technology is extremely under developed: imagine inventing the screwdriver, having it slip through your fins, and it immediately floating “up” into oblivion. Debate is still ongoing as to if thi…
This genuinely looks like it could have been generated by GPT-2 and now I can't tell.
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#38what a fun website