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How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by mitchdoogle »

hemloc_io wrote: post #13

I have what I think is a unique perspective on this. Private small self run social media already exists. It's personal Minecraft servers. When I was younger I ran a Minecraft server out of my toaster of a PC. Friends hopped on, made their own little houses, built stuff and talked. Friends would pass in and out and in order to get in you had to be invited! I'd say max there were 10-20 people on there somewhat consiste…

I can't help but think that kids today are doing something like this in their own way. And that the real thing people miss when they wax nostalgic is youth.

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by GekkePrutser »

toyg wrote: post #111
pjc50 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is rather bad news as an implication for Tinder.

All dating sites have effectively two sets of users: people who use it until they get a long-term partner (A), and people who can use it forever because they are unlikely or unwilling to get a long-term partner (B). That is effectively intrinsic to the activity they are born to serve (dating). This said, there are enough people belonging to the B set to keep them in business pretty much forever. There is also the opt…

There's also an influx of (A)s of course because it doesn't always work out :)

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by mitchdoogle »

kody wrote: post #6

I wish there were a way to broadcast "I am a in " and generate a decentralized forum (i.e. phpbb 15 years ago). Growing up, all online friends lived hundreds of miles away; as an adult, all my friends have wildly different interests. Nowadays Discord is The Answer but it's not nearly as intimate as a good message board. Maybe that's a function of growing up, but I can't help but feel disillusioned that $someone hasn'…

It's not decentralized, but doesn't meetup.com satisfy some of those ideas?

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by Alex3917 »

Nerada wrote: post #14

I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc. HN is great, but it's very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it's never getting new replies. It's a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.

> I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.

A lot of sufficiently niche hobbies still do. E.g. if you get into rare fruit growing, a lot of the best information is in various Discourse forums.

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by sneak »

Jaruzel wrote: post #47

What I really want to see is a guide on: 'How to convince all your friends to jump ship and join you on a platform you built, and abandon their friends in the process.' /s

Why does using an additional platform require abandoning anything?

Having a forum account doesn't delete your Twitter.

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by sneak »

fiatjaf wrote: post #62
Jaruzel wrote: post #47

What I really want to see is a guide on: 'How to convince all your friends to jump ship and join you on a platform you built, and abandon their friends in the process.' /s

Every now and then I see this kind of post here. "Friends", they say. "Run software for your friends", they tell. I always wonder who are these people who have so many friends and who are these friends who are willing to try experimental social networks with no one else in them.

You can come meet us, the link has been in my profile for months. ;)

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by np- »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #120
np- wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s actually interesting—I used to really be into multiplayer games when I was a teenager into my early 20s, and have some great memories of virtual hangs with friends both real and offline. My interest in online gaming basically dropped to zero (or even negative) after that, which seems to coincidence with when matchmaking started becoming a thing. I think it was it Halo 2 that was the first big matchmaking game…

Interesting, I was just thinking Halo 2 was great for that sort of thing. I have some fond memories of joining private parties and goofing around for hours hunting for glitches

Maybe it was Halo 3? The one that focused heavily on matchmaking play (I played on Xbox if that makes a difference)

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by sneak »

nhumrich wrote: post #113
high_5 wrote: post #98

How about just having Signal groups?

Uh. I personally hate signal groups. If you ever lose your phone, you loose all history. The desktop app works, but won't show any history. I know in signals eyes this is intentional, but it's also silly. I had access to all that information, it's not any less safe on a new device that I have to prove I own.

You don't have a logged history of all of your in-person chats with your friend groups, either.

Re: How to run a small social network site for your friends

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Post by sneak »

renewiltord wrote: post #43

Have private Slack. It is good.

"private Slack" is a contradiction in terms. Slack is not e2e encrypted and the people at Slack can read all of your messages and DMs.

Being a US company, there are a fair number of circumstances where they have to turn the contents over to the government without a warrant or probable cause, too.

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