The old "X" but with new cool restriction "Y" startup idea. Like Twitter or Snapchat.
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#82I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
Regarding high latency twitter: maybe someone should make FidoNet.social. For those who don't remember, back in the early 90's your local BBS's might offer message boards connected to the rest of the US/world. Not a continuous connection. Every day at 2 AM (or whenever), your favorite BBS would dial into some remote node and sync messages. Practical effect was a roughly 24-48 (or more) hour wait for responses. Didn't…
I've always wondered about the practicality of doing something like fidonet over AX25/some other packet radio system. It'd be fabulous to be able to ditch the internet and participate in something slower and more humane. Your post has reminded me of that ambition. These days, I'd love an e-ink display to accompany it. Slow computing!
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#83I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
Regarding high latency twitter: maybe someone should make FidoNet.social. For those who don't remember, back in the early 90's your local BBS's might offer message boards connected to the rest of the US/world. Not a continuous connection. Every day at 2 AM (or whenever), your favorite BBS would dial into some remote node and sync messages. Practical effect was a roughly 24-48 (or more) hour wait for responses. Didn't…
FidoNet didn't really mandate syncing once per day. It required the nodes to sync at least that often, and established a common hour for each zone to allow direct node-to-node connections for that purpose; but even in late 90s, larger nodes would already sync more often in practice.
FWIW FidoNet is still around, although most connections seem to be over IP these days.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding high latency twitter: maybe someone should make FidoNet.social. For those who don't remember, back in the early 90's your local BBS's might offer message boards connected to the rest of the US/world. Not a continuous connection. Every day at 2 AM (or whenever), your favorite BBS would dial into some remote node and sync messages. Practical effect was a roughly 24-48 (or more) hour wait for responses. Didn't…
I've always wondered about the practicality of doing something like fidonet over AX25/some other packet radio system. It'd be fabulous to be able to ditch the internet and participate in something slower and more humane. Your post has reminded me of that ambition. These days, I'd love an e-ink display to accompany it. Slow computing!
With AREDN, you get a whole TCP/IP ecosystem to play with. This could then be used to run protocols like UUCP or NNTP, that are tailored to disconnected scenarios.
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#85I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
Let me take this chance to mention the "Unhook" Youtube browser extension, which I recently added and which I think has been having a big positive effect for me. The extension allows you to remove (among other things, it's very customizable) the sidebar of suggested videos from Youtube.
This extension has been more effective for me than any other at cutting down how much youtube I watch. Maybe the biggest factor in this is that it doesn't ban me from youtube entirely - When I've tried extensions like that in the past, I've always ended up uninstalling the extension when I needed to watch a youtube video for work. This way, I can watch a little, but the lack of constant new recommendations keeps me from spending hours and hours on the site.
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#86In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…
I always wondered why the poem wasn't one hundred and sixty-seven words long. Perhaps this was all he could save for us.
Or the other 42 were for us to give the ones we love.
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#87In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…
I always wondered why the poem wasn't one hundred and sixty-seven words long. Perhaps this was all he could save for us.
42 words remain.
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#88Interesting idea, but what's stopping someone from creating a second account?
Nothing and that's exactly what would happen if it became popular.
You'd get @kanyewest7, @kanyewest289, @kanyewest3058, etc.
Also, the younger you are when you join the network, the fewer posts you get per year. If you join as an 18 year old, you have a little over 1 post per year remaining. If you join at 90, you have 10 posts per year, etc.
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#89How about the last post being a redirect to new account?
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#90Sounds a bit like the dev got stuck in the childhood fear/fantasy of "what if the more words I speak, the sooner I die"...