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#102In 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-…
Beauty is best served with a tinge of melancholy.
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#103Interesting 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.
That’s a feature! That 90yo probably has rather more worth sharing than the 18yo.
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#104Notable that you can edit comments after posting, which makes the number of posts you can make virtually limitless.
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#105I 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 t…
Seconded, but just a note that if you're using ublock origin you can just block the sidebar with a content filter.
I've blocked the sidebar and the comments section. The former has dramatically reduced the amount of time I spend on YouTube. The latter has dramatically reduced my exposure to the inanity of the YouTube comments section. Both are huge quality of life improvements.
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#106I 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…
Usenet used to be like this for me. With high cost dialup, I'd download batches of posts, read them and respond offline, uploading my responses at the same time I download the following day's batch.
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#107Tangential 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
I think you built something that was by design a niche product. Big social networks experience network effects - when a bunch of your friends/family/etc are already on a free social network it makes the barrier/effort low. If you have a social network like you made it requires that groups of people join it together, and that they know the other has it in advance, and that costs money to post beyond a certain number o…
I agree
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#108It strikes me as strange that "Social Networks" assume or differentiate based on "social media". Social networks moved from connecting people to posting to create an inventory where ads could fit. It seems like removing the posts from a social network could be an interesting unlock.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
>- Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous. Aren't we pretty much there now with a so many bots posting?
I think a bunch of people still credulously believe most of what they read. But if some days the bot actively impersonated _you_, and people reacted to stuff it said on your behalf, I think you'd have to grok pretty quickly that a lot of content is fake. So let's do that for every user, unpredictably, a reasonable percentage of the time.
scorched earth, why not? I think this is just about right though. Humans were not ready for social media, so burn it to the ground. however, if what the bot says on my behalf brings disrupte to my name, no repurcursions should be bestowed on me.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sounds like the point would be to keep the intrigued reader wondering what the significance or meaning was by leaving 42 or 'n' words--what is it that was of similar importance the author didn't share with us but used elsewhere, etc.
To keep things interesting, you have to leave openings for the imagination to wonder.