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Text-Only Social Network
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#123I wanted to see how it would handle non-ascii text so I typed 안녕하세요 and it romanized it to annyeonghaseyo. (This is "hello" in Korean). I did not expect that. I really like the idea of a text-only social network, so I hope this takes off. I think the author should consider supporting other languages though. Seeing romanized text isn't very helpful to people that actually want to read or write in other character sets.…
From the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only , public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks. [...] >Limitations >480 characters per reply ASCII only because it works everywhere I could see this being a xenophobic thing, but I could also see it being more about the limited character set…
It could also be a moderation thing. If the people working on the website mostly just speak English, then it will be much easier for them to moderate an English-only website.
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#124I wanted to see how it would handle non-ascii text so I typed 안녕하세요 and it romanized it to annyeonghaseyo. (This is "hello" in Korean). I did not expect that. I really like the idea of a text-only social network, so I hope this takes off. I think the author should consider supporting other languages though. Seeing romanized text isn't very helpful to people that actually want to read or write in other character sets.…
> I think the author should consider supporting other languages though
Maybe it's a moderation problem?
I personally wouldn't feel comfortable running a non-english service, as I feel it would be too hard to moderate it effectively (or at least until you rearch the point where you have paid or volunteer moderators fluent in both the "main" language (to communicate rules and policy clearly) and any other supported langage). You can try auto-translating foreign text but you won't necessarily get a good translation, let alone handle cultural references (not Korean, but e.g. [1])and so on.
[1] https://www.italki.com/article/92/the-dark-meaning-of-5-chin...
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only , public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks. [...] >Limitations >480 characters per reply ASCII only because it works everywhere I could see this being a xenophobic thing, but I could also see it being more about the limited character set…
Where does Unicode not work? It’s been everywhere for years
Because the content density varies in different languages.
For example, each english word has ~7 ascii chars, but each chinese / japanese / korean words only has ~2 unicode chars
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#126Always considered doing this sort of thing but with a more myspace-y lean but never did because I knew the users would still find ways to ruin it in multiple ways.
Off the top of my head people could still just link to media and it would make grooming far easier without any expectations of profile photos.
This is all compounded by the fact that text is much harder to moderate than images as you can't immediately read the situation at a glance and it's not like moderating a normal social network was ever an easy task anyway.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
The character limit is the last of Twitters issue, in my opinion. I think the #1 issue is the retweet model, it leads to people just brainlessly sharing low effort content with a single click. It's similar to how fake news and misleading content thrive on Facebook. But notice how Instagram where it's impossible to easily re-share content (well, you can now in stories) is far less toxic.
An honest UI might use the word “echo” rather than “retweet”.
Perhaps "parrot", given the parent platform's choice of terminology?
"I totally made the world a better place today! I , ummm, yeah. So. I just parroted an actual activist's well thought out and carefully composed tweet, instead of doing anything of substance at all myself... What am I doing with my life? "
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that always astonished me. This novel is famous, but I’ve never met anyone who’s actually read it.
I have :-) It is, as you and everybody you know seems to have worked out, not really worth the effort, unless you are amused in just the right way by such things. (I did start the French novel influenced by it, but my decades-rusty high school French comprehension was not up to the task...)
Is that by Queneau? (Probably spelled that wrong.)
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#129When you say "social network", do you mean Twitter Clone? It seems like developers in particular have come to regard Twitter as archetypal social networks despite it's many problems and the way the user doesn't really much ability to define their own social graph. IE, N-character limit is still a determiner of Twitter (poisonous) discourse quality, just for example and Twitter isn't something most people enjoy being…
The character limit is the last of Twitters issue, in my opinion. I think the #1 issue is the retweet model, it leads to people just brainlessly sharing low effort content with a single click. It's similar to how fake news and misleading content thrive on Facebook. But notice how Instagram where it's impossible to easily re-share content (well, you can now in stories) is far less toxic.
The retweet is my favourite part of twitter! It means a relatively unknown artist or developer can have their work massively amplified and shared around despite having only a small number of followers. I don't know of any other service that offers that sort of benefit.
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#130As i understand, there's some evidence that visual social networks are preferred by females, e.g. pinterest.
I recall a hypothesis that it has to do with women (or rather, neurotypes bell-curving around female gender identification) tending to use social media to discuss interpersonal and emotion-based content rather than facts and knowledge-sharing. There is more value placed on relationships with others when using social networks, which perhaps is bolstered by visual elements.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026840121...
I do wonder whether text-based social networks (e.g., some subreddits, slashdot, HN, mailing lists) are biased toward making a certain sort of mind and neurotype more comfortable. And without those neurotypes, what ways of seeing might that community also now be lacking...
disclosure: i usually identify more with feminine ways of relating to knowledge and people, than masculine ones.