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Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by grawprog »

joe_the_user wrote: post #74

When 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…

I've never really thought of twitter as a social network more of a collection of grandstands or soapboxes or something all with people holding megaphones with a 10 second limit all yelling at the same time and sometimes the people around your megaphone will yell your message out to the people near their soap boxes. The more important you are, the taller your soapbox and and the farther the sound goes, but your megaphone still only works for 10 seconds at a time.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by irrational »

joe_the_user wrote: post #74

When 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…

In my mind, it is only a social network if I know whom I am networking with and they know who I am in real life. Reddit isn’t a social network since no one on there knows who I am and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never interacted with the same person on there twice. Anonymous is not social.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by ponker »

irrational wrote: post #152
joe_the_user wrote: post #74

When 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…

In my mind, it is only a social network if I know whom I am networking with and they know who I am in real life. Reddit isn’t a social network since no one on there knows who I am and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never interacted with the same person on there twice. Anonymous is not social.

This site is a bit of an in between. There are definitely recognizable names here like JacquesM, DoreenMichelle, etc. that I don’t know IRL but recognize here. Then there are the users like WalterBright where I can correlate to an IRL identity, without knowing him personally.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by jimhi »

ponker wrote: post #154
irrational wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my mind, it is only a social network if I know whom I am networking with and they know who I am in real life. Reddit isn’t a social network since no one on there knows who I am and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never interacted with the same person on there twice. Anonymous is not social.

This site is a bit of an in between. There are definitely recognizable names here like JacquesM, DoreenMichelle, etc. that I don’t know IRL but recognize here. Then there are the users like WalterBright where I can correlate to an IRL identity, without knowing him personally.

I had to look up all the people you named and am still not clear who they are or why you know them exactly.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by krrrh »

bigiain wrote: post #76
leephillips wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stay tuned for my uppercase-only social network. Also, we don’t allow the letter Z nor semicolons, as they are rarely used.

Wanna try making that the letter E? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

Or only one vowel at a time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia_(book)

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by carrolldunham »

smhmd wrote: post #143
carrolldunham wrote: post #31

As seen on twitch, letting people put emojis in their name on a black and white site sets up a system where scanning eyes just see those eye-candies and skip over the rest. This is useful on twitch as it highlights the streamer's paying subscribers but here it's just whoever is more obnoxious.

I disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.

it sounds like you are implying every user should have a distinct emoji at the start of their name .. i.e. an avatar image

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by ponker »

jimhi wrote: post #155
ponker wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This site is a bit of an in between. There are definitely recognizable names here like JacquesM, DoreenMichelle, etc. that I don’t know IRL but recognize here. Then there are the users like WalterBright where I can correlate to an IRL identity, without knowing him personally.

I had to look up all the people you named and am still not clear who they are or why you know them exactly.

I don’t, I just recognize them as commenters and can tie their comments into their previous comments.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by soneca »

ilovetux wrote: post #71
soneca wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! About the sharing, I am sorry, but I didn't want to claim that it is impossible to share. I will check the phrasing, but the idea is that it doesn't have a sharing feature (like retweeting or the share button on phones). You can't click on a button to forward the content. You still can copy/paste and screenshot normally. It is not built-in, so not encouraged by design.

> there is no way to share content outside of the list of who posted it. I can see how I misunderstood. Still it seems like it might be a good compromise and would get me around the issue I described with mms of unintentional sharing. I'm going to see if I can get some of my family and friends to sign up with me.

That's great! Your feedback will be very valuable (you can just reply the Welcome email).

Btw, I just changed that line to:

Also, there is no feature to share content outside of the list of who posted it.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by TheMblabla »

foxhop wrote: post #145

Please let me follow people. Next let me see all the people I follow on a "pintrest" style page. I should be able to see only their latest subreply. Most recent subreply to oldest. I hit refresh when I'm ready for updates. If I want to see all of somebodies subreplies I will click their username to see all the threads they have created.

I think you can follow/unfollow people. I agree though, it would be nice to see more than a list of usernames in the 'following' page
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