They should do some kind of username filtering though. It's much easier because everything is in English, so a blacklist of words could do the job. I found several offensive username and names within few minutes of browsing the site.
Text-Only Social Network
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without media it could be run at scale cheaper
What will happen is that people will just post links to imgur/giphy etc like they used to when Twitter came out. Eventually for convenience they’d start getting embedded on the page. The tracking implications with embedding media would occur. The media would either be proxied (same/more? bandwidth usage, less storage needed though) or just self hosted and then we’re back to Twitter again. Twitter added features for a…
You assume that they'd support embedding even though they say their MO is to be text-only? I could see them just resisting support for that, and the type of content adapting accordingly
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The retweet is my favourite part of twitter! It means a relatively unwanted company or brand 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." Said nobody ever. (I also somewhat agree with you, I have a bunch of real world friends now, who I first came to know via Twitter retweets - back in T…
Did you just say "said nobody ever" to someone who literally just said that? There is clearly at least one person who feels that way.
I'm surprised that up until now I've never seen someone on HN comment about following artists on Twitter. This is all I ever use Twitter for, never tweet myself, and unfollow people who only make passing statements that can be made up in a few seconds. My feed is almost entirely filled with people who use Twitter as something like Deviantart or Pixiv to upload original artwork and only use the character count for writing a description or title, or sometimes nothing at all and only posting artwork to speak for itself. This is entirely separate from some people's impression of Twitter as a breeding ground for arguments. People don't really argue as much in this specific subset of Twitter for some reason.
If Twitter went away then that specific platform would also go away. True, it's sad that said platform is also a hub of tribes and divisive arguments and design patterns that support mindless retweeting, but that's just how social media that needs to keep expanding its audience is designed. If an audience wanting to be a part of that culture by giving in to those patterns without slowing down to analyze the ulterior motives of social media companies like HN commenters often do motivates artists and creators to bring their work there, as they now have a sizeable audience, then I can't really complain or force them to move elsewhere. That would just be exacerbating the same issue of being divisive. I can't force these people off Twitter just because most of Twitter personally bothers me.
Yet, that still isn't enough to prevent the occasional content creator from retweeting something from a different handle that shows up on your timeline, and that specific retweet has nothing to do with the content you want to see and delves into divisive or political territory. But you also receive value from the person who retweeted it through their art. It just goes to show that separating these things is a human issue with no easy solution, and it's tempting to get frustrated at the status quo.
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#164They should do some kind of username filtering though. It's much easier because everything is in English, so a blacklist of words could do the job. I found several offensive username and names within few minutes of browsing the site.
Re: Text-Only Social Network
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you just say "said nobody ever" to someone who literally just said that? There is clearly at least one person who feels that way.
I made a minor but critical small edit to what the person just said. I switched "unknown artist or developer" to "unwanted company or brand" - which to me at least, is a super accurate change in majority user base between Twitter 2010 and Twitter 2020. Now ask yourself if anybody ever said what you're responding to?
You could’ve put the changed parts in italics (you’re still in the edit window and can do it). Most people wouldn’t realize this while they scan through replies, especially when you appear to be quoting verbatim.
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#166isn't this similar to Japan's 2ch?
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#167We can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there. https://subreply.com/about "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." What does "untrustworthy" mean in this cont…
"Be nice or else" lol fascist-ville.
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#168When 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.
That's really interesting to me. I grew up with MySpace. Facebook wasn't a thing until high school. I used them similarly, but for different reasons: I spoke to new people on MySpace and people that I already knew on Facebook. I made many dear friends on MySpace and still talk to many of them frequently.
I think that more traditional "profile-based" social media is well-suited to meeting new people. I have no interest in reading another person's "feed" of shared content and ramblings, but I am more inclined to perhaps read a short "About Me" if that makes sense.
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#169When 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 don't think ways of defining one's own social network have been exhausted by all the networks out there Yeah, it’s fun to build a clone, but what we really need is something innovative.
I touched upon this in another comment, but I miss "profile-based" social media sites. No feed.
Ex. I have a profile that I can update with photos, etc. If you want to see those things, add me as a friend and navigate to my profile. If I want to share something with my friends, I can use a feature similar to MySpace's bulletin board, a space to share text-only updates about my life. The actual content of the update is hidden behind a link (the title of the update) so I can decide if I am interested in it or not.
I think centralized feeds have destroyed social media. This is especially true of feeds optimized to show "relevant" content.
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#170"About -> Limitations: ASCII only because it works everywhere" This should be in the features. It is the strongest selling point of the site as I see it.
So... even if it's English-only, I can't quickly refer to a price in £ or € or ¥? Or that it's 90°F out? I can't talk about my fiancée? I can't even use “proper quotes”? Yikes. These days, talking about the "benefits" of ASCII-only is like talking about the "benefits" of HTTP over HTTPS, or the benefits of dial-up as opposed to broadband. No thanks. It's exclusionary and for zero good technical reason. For every reas…
It’s HIS site. Don’t like it? Don’t use it. Not everything needs to conform to everyone.