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Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by thereticent »

minikites wrote: post #4

A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically thoughtful discourse.

Presumably, not by cutting down on old cruft but by cutting down on new cruft. I would think that requiring the post to stand some kind of "test of time" would cut down on quick-trending but shallow content in a lot of cases.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by AlotOfReading »

minikites wrote: post #4

A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically thoughtful discourse.

These particular constraints may not be ideal, but AskHistorians has a similar restriction called the 20 years rule where discussion of events from the past two decades is verboten. It doesn't automatically make conversation thoughtful, but it's an easily enforced rule that largely precludes modern politics without sacrificing too many topics of interest.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by moksha256 »

calibas wrote: post #9
moksha256 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh it was just working, looking into it.

To add, I believe that's caused by rate limiting in Nginx.

Thanks, looks like it was at 1 per second...I just boosted it a bit.

EDIT: boosted again...gosh, HN front page is no joke :D

EDIT 2: I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were harder to discover/configure than others. Site should be back again. Sorry.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by grahamburger »

minikites wrote: post #4

A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically thoughtful discourse.

It does at least mean that you're limited to discussing flat earth posts that were able to stay online and findable for at least 5 years, which is a subset of all flat earth posts. So that's good!

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by moksha256 »

SirLotsaLocks wrote: post #5
moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

Ay I thought this was based off of lemmy. It's cool to see it be used to create interesting sites like this.

I've deployed a number of web services and I have to say...Lemmy was incredibly streamlined and easy to deploy. Deployment is entirely automated with docker and an ansible script, and updating requires just 1 command.

Really looking forward to them completing the ActivityPub integration.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by Fnoord »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #13
minikites wrote: post #4

A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically thoughtful discourse.

These particular constraints may not be ideal, but AskHistorians has a similar restriction called the 20 years rule where discussion of events from the past two decades is verboten. It doesn't automatically make conversation thoughtful, but it's an easily enforced rule that largely precludes modern politics without sacrificing too many topics of interest.

There's still going to be controversy. For example, Turks not admitting Armenian genocide (~100 y.o.). Also, the winner writes history. I guess within those 20 years, the losers get mostly assimilated.
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