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Re: Minus

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Post by smoldesu »

soneca wrote: post #41

Tangential plug, I launched my own social network without feed, notifications, or even a way to find people there. It flopped everywhere I promoted it, but it is still online since I am on free tier of the host service. If anyone wants to check it: https://www.quidsentio.com

> ...It flopped everywhere I promoted it...

Have you considered lowering the barrier-of-entry from $19? For what is effectively a journaling app, you're driving an incredible amount of margin out of a scenario where your audience has no incentive to pay.

Re: Minus

#52

Post by streamofdigits »

Love this. People are craving a different social media experience or at least quite a few articulate and imaginative ones do.

But while the failure of the current crop is evident (well not in terms of shareholder value), what should be a "good" replacement is not all that obvious. Even beyond sustainable business model issues, there are so many configurations, platform features, constraints, user incentives etc. There are two general principles I can think of:

* Let a thousand flowers bloom (in a fediverse context) and let evolutionary trial-and-error determine what works

* Source some insights from the surveillance capitalists as they are the ones who have accumulated the largest empirical factbase about what we should definitely avoid 8-)

Re: Minus

#53

Post by Vaslo »

Reddit needs this but for upvotes. Tons of low quality posts starting with a barely funny joke that goes 15 replies deep with almost the same joke but less and less funny. If you only have say 5 upvotes a day, you won’t contribute garbage to a barely useful thread.

Re: Minus

#54

Post by ok123456 »

Vaslo wrote: post #53

Reddit needs this but for upvotes. Tons of low quality posts starting with a barely funny joke that goes 15 replies deep with almost the same joke but less and less funny. If you only have say 5 upvotes a day, you won’t contribute garbage to a barely useful thread.

This is how slashdot does moderation.

Re: Minus

#56

Post by JasonFruit »

I know, I know, this is more art than a serious social medium (if social media can be serious): but I don't think the concept is as clever as it tries to seem. A project like this, even as an objet d'art, ought to inspire someone to interact with it, to poke at it and see what happens — but would anyone really bother? The limitations would make you think carefully about what you share with the community, but that caution works against building any sort of community, even an ephemeral one. It's just not attractive or engaging, like a painting you'd see in a gallery and walk past after a glance.

Re: Minus

#57

Post by Amorymeltzer »

There was a social network "this" some years back, the idea being that you could make just one post a day. I enjoyed it a bit, and IIRC it didn't do too terribly.

Predictably, it's now gone.

Re: Minus

#58

Post by sundarurfriend »

maximp wrote: post #10

This product seems to combine a few unrelated ideas. No monetization, reverse-chronological feed, no notifications: sweet. Easier to have cleaner, more meaningful conversations with people, hopefully. In short, a nicer, ad-free, less-harmful Facebook. How will you pay for it if it ever gets popular? I'm not sure how limited posts play into this. I think the intention is to make users really think about what they're p…

> But the arbitrary, "nice, round number" limit just feels existentially dreadful at best, and like a headline-generating schtick at worst.

From TFA:

> Minus was created by Ben Grosser and commissioned by arebyte Gallery (London, UK) as part of the solo exhibition Software for Less [https://www.arebyte.com/software-for-less].

It's an art project. Headline-generating schticks and existential dread are to be expected.

Re: Minus

#59

Post by sayhar »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #57

There was a social network "this" some years back, the idea being that you could make just one post a day. I enjoyed it a bit, and IIRC it didn't do too terribly. Predictably, it's now gone.

I have one of their stickers. It was nice! IIRC it was doing fine, but they ran of out funding and their next round of financing fell through unexpectedly.
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