This was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.
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
#102This 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.
My experience is that there's a ton of value there, but the trending tab is like a siren call I can't resist even though I regret it almost every time. Usually I can't imagine why something is trending, click on it and lose ever more faith in humanity.
Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
#103This was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.
Maybe publishing the IP addresses of those is the real "show HN" that we'll see next week.
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#104They should enable people to vote vents up and down and to have a 'trending vents' feature just like twitter.
Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
#105This 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.
> I don’t see any “cesspool” on my feed in fact.
You should file a bug report. Your feed should make you equal parts angry, sad, and horny.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> without the longevity of Twitter/FB posts, people just wouldn't think twice about what they're saying You clearly have not yet witnessed the bad parts of Facebook and Twitter. I've seen people calling for genocide on Facebook under their real name and that's not even remotely the worst. Facebook's content moderation teams are basically getting PTSD[0] by default as they enforce rules that specify under what circums…
Why does Facebook need to moderate the populations talking points? The us government literally drops bombs on people's homes. Humanity is full of all kinds of bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to make everything online a fucking safe space.
>Why does Facebook need to moderate the populations talking points?
Why do you think?
>The us government literally drops bombs on people's homes.
Ok.
>Humanity is full of all kinds of bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to make everything online a fucking safe space.
Waheoo, I know you deliberately caught the coronavirus to spread it as part of your Jihad. I shared your address on my Facebook wall. I'm sure you don't mind; you don't need a fucking safe space.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> without the longevity of Twitter/FB posts, people just wouldn't think twice about what they're saying You clearly have not yet witnessed the bad parts of Facebook and Twitter. I've seen people calling for genocide on Facebook under their real name and that's not even remotely the worst. Facebook's content moderation teams are basically getting PTSD[0] by default as they enforce rules that specify under what circums…
Why does Facebook need to moderate the populations talking points? The us government literally drops bombs on people's homes. Humanity is full of all kinds of bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to make everything online a fucking safe space.
It's not about making everything a safe space, it's making sure
kids on social media don't get sent gory pictures, radical
extremists aren't able to incite violence on a massive scale,
shooters don't get to livestream their mass murders and school
kids don't commit suicide due to cyber bullying.
This issue isn't black or white and your edgy worldview doesn't improve the situation. Just so you know, even 4chan is heavily moderated and so are many other places the average person would usually avoid.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
A machine learning algorithm then uses that stuff to recommend content which is similar. If one engages with opinionated stuff, then they'll only get recommended stuff that conforms to their original opinion, forming an echo chamber.
Imagine following some people who talk about houseplants. Maybe you like some tweets with the kind of information you consider of above-average usefulness for you. Maybe you praise someone for a beautiful pic of their monstera variegata. The algorithm decides to show you more high-quality tweets and prettier photos. If you consider that an echo chamber then all right, but I don't think it's a useful definition. Is go…
I think the proper analogy is a bookstore whose titles rearrange themselves on the shelves based on your liminal reactions to the covers.
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> This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. Also like Jodel it is anonymous[1], which is a good thing whenever possible as has become obvious lately. [1]: wrt other users. Random nutjobs of all shapes cannot easily find you and nobody can verify if Jodel have really banned someone so they can to a larger degree do what they think…
Somehow similar to HN isn’t it?
Kind of, but anonymous instead of pseudonymous and also (kind of) ephemeral.
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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
I'm brand new to full stack so I have no idea what I'm doing. Kind of figuring it out as I go along. Decided to start with short polling since I was having trouble getting websockets working and just wanted to get a v1.0 out in the wild. Switching over to websockets eventually is 100% on my mind, but I have a near infinite amount of work to do on all fronts so we'll see when I have time!
Not sure what your backend is, but websockets are pretty straightforward with socket.io! Happy to help get you up to speed - don't hesitate to reach out (@maxverse on twitter, email in profile)
Great job figuring things out as you go, and I love the experience. Keep up the good work!