I feel like I've become less social since the advent of social networks.
And the catch-22 is that quitting social networks seems to make the problem even worse.
Text-Only Social Network
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
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? "
> instead of doing anything of substance at all myself
Does amplification of messages count as "nothing of substance"? "Getting the message out" is a crucial part of activism, is it not?
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#203Ah, yes, usenet.
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#204These guys are building a subscription-based social network. It's a freemium model. Best part is that they are sharing 70% of their subscription fees with original content creators.
Every time someone likes your post you'll make money. It's an interesting idea.https://sivaapp.xyz/
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#205> ASCII only because it works everywhere
cries in his native language
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#206I 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…
Names of people, events, trends…
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#207Like it. No logging out ?
If you mean to ask how to log out -- click on your username and it will show you link to sign out. I had similar trouble and took a bit to figure.
Thanks, someone hinted to it in a random conversation. Links should always be underlined if they aren't a button or a menu item.
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#208Tried registering, I usually try the username luc on sites to see if it's still free. But that is an "invalid username", no explanation given. So what, do I need to add numbers and special characters? Is my legal name too short? Is it already in use? This tells me nothing.
Also, the about page is contradictory:
> [brain][muscles] one or two emojis instead of avatars
> [...]
> ASCII only because it works everywhere
Hmm hmm, I see. Emojis work so everywhere that I have to [substitute] them to even talk about it here. Seems to me like "we don't do encoding because it's hard" more than because it works everywhere: any device with emoji support will also at least support the basic characters -- perhaps a unicode snowman won't exist in some fonts, but surely a character like µ should work... This is not just about other languages, either: °C, µm, different length dashes, etc. are regular non-ASCII symbols that occur in English.
And no, "ASCII only" is not meant in the sense of "plain text only". Any non-US ASCII is converted (ç->c, ÿ->y, ś->s, µ->u).
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#209Tried registering, I usually try the username luc on sites to see if it's still free. But that is an "invalid username", no explanation given. So what, do I need to add numbers and special characters? Is my legal name too short? Is it already in use? This tells me nothing. Also, the about page is contradictory: > [brain][muscles] one or two emojis instead of avatars > [...] > ASCII only because it works everywhere Hm…
The transliteration is somewhat impressive for the bits of UTF-8 non-english I can type...
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#210This is the only JavaScript file they use [0]. It's a pure joy. [0] https://subreply.com/static/script.js?v=6
Why do (almost) all the functions have event.preventDefault() ?
One possible use is to prevent the standard right click menu from showing on desktop so that a custom right click menu can be shown instead.