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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#23
I've been wanting to do a tech trash talk site for a while.

Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament.

You can do things like sort by most capital letters and profanity density or incoherency and spelling errors.

Now that I actually typed this out, it sounds really easy to code.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#25
This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter.

I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the absolute worst thing to do with venting.

Similar to the advice that when you're angry at someone you should write them an email, pour it all out and then delete that email instead of sending it.

Sometimes we need to get stuff off of our chest but the insanity of the modern world is that once we do, it's archived and mined and maybe even used against us 15 years later.

Ventscape solves that problem (conditional on its privacy and data retention policies I suppose...)

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#26

This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the…

Is that your only experience with Twitter? Twitter fills about a million more roles than venting. I don’t see any “cesspool” on my feed in fact.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#27

This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the…

It's mined by the same agencies that monitor everything. So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#29

I've been wanting to do a tech trash talk site for a while. Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament. You can do things like sort by most capital letters and profanity density or incoherency and spelling errors. Now that I actually typed this out, it sounds really easy to code.

>Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament.

This is me with like 90% of tech, but instead of sometimes it's all the time.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#30

Looks like you can query the database directly via their REST API: https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost?sort=id,desc&size...

I'm not sure why there is a database at all, if you want messages to just appear and not stick around you could do this over websockets and never need to touch a database
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