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Post by mysterydip »

saagarjha wrote: post #80
andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In 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.

That was just a poem? I wanted to read more! I guess it's fitting, though.

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Post by Zensynthium »

dredmorbius wrote: post #86
saagarjha wrote: post #80

Earlier 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.

42, is it a coincidence that this is also the answer to the universe?

Re: Minus

#113

Post by ddalex »

britch wrote: post #93
simias wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like like the idea of a "high latency" social network, effectively bringing back the feeling of old snail mail (but more public). 2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to g…

I like the "collaborative-newspaper" idea a lot. Though I haven't used it much, this sounds like substack + RSS, that only refreshes once a day. It's missing some interactivity I suppose

Thus usenet was reinvented

Re: Minus

#114

Post by nicktorba »

simias wrote: post #44
abeppu wrote: post #16

I 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…

I really like like the idea of a "high latency" social network, effectively bringing back the feeling of old snail mail (but more public). 2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to g…

I'd love a high latency app as well, but there is undeniable magic in instant communication. My best writing is often when I'm "hot" on a topic and can quickly go back and forth with others on the idea. Steam could quickly run out for that type of thing without instant communication.

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Post by nicktorba »

my biggest problem with this idea is that many people are already hesitant to write/post online. limiting the number of posts they are allowed to make might make their post anxiety even worse.

i do like the sentiment behind it though

Re: Minus

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Post by superasn »

I would prefer if it was like 3 or 5 post a month.

Since that way you're never at the end of your line and it would still avoid a lot of the noise which I think this site hopes to achieve.

Re: Minus

#117

Post by zhte415 »

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…

I went to https://www.arebyte.com/ and right-clicked the Twitter feed icon. Right click for this had been disabled.

So then I looked at the source, and saw it was done on Sharespace. So, not sure how much dog food is being eaten in

> Each work is presented as a product that could have come out of an alternative Silicon Valley, interrogating and reimagining how software is created, operated, and sold.

And,

> Utilising custom methods such as software recomposition, techniques such as data obfuscation

But use Google Analytics.

And then, from the speech...

> The last twenty years have been characterized by the rise of software.

Twenty years ago was recovery period from the .com boom. It's been a little more than 20 years. If anything I'd call the past 10 years dull, where walled social networks have sought to raise their walls ever higher, that might be interesting.

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#118

Post by smichel17 »

nicktorba wrote: post #114
simias wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like like the idea of a "high latency" social network, effectively bringing back the feeling of old snail mail (but more public). 2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to g…

I'd love a high latency app as well, but there is undeniable magic in instant communication. My best writing is often when I'm "hot" on a topic and can quickly go back and forth with others on the idea. Steam could quickly run out for that type of thing without instant communication.

Continuing to brainstorm--

Say, the way some messaging platforms have threads which can branch off of the main channel. Maybe this platform has something like that, too; instantaneous and temporary, where messages disappear N minutes after they're sent. So you can post publicly on the time-delayed cadence, or chat semi-privately in realtime.

I'm not sure if that undermines the desirable properties of the time delay.

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#119

Post by animanoir »

andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In 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-…

this is great. thank you

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#120

Post by _tom_ »

abeppu wrote: post #16

I 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…

So, Facebook? :-)
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