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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 btbuildem »

dpeck wrote: post #136

It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale, and most of that already happens over private chat platforms. I help curate networks for my fraternity (US, college for those of you not familiar with it). Many of us are in the same or related career fields, and there’s a few hobbies that are common to find in the group (sports, music, etc). These are people who, for the most part,…

> It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale

I think that's exactly the point. OP wants a human-sized community, without the cancerous mandate of growth. It's meant to be a bulletin board for your immediate community, around dozens of people in size on average.

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

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Post by wishinghand »

This reminds me of a blog post that I can’t find anymore. I sort of remember the title being a riff on “Cooking for One” but it might have been “Programming for One”. It was about the author making a little photo sharing app just for their family. Kind of like a snapchat clone, but invite only for friends and family, no public feed at all. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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

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Post by ents »

wishinghand wrote: post #142

This reminds me of a blog post that I can’t find anymore. I sort of remember the title being a riff on “Cooking for One” but it might have been “Programming for One”. It was about the author making a little photo sharing app just for their family. Kind of like a snapchat clone, but invite only for friends and family, no public feed at all. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

[An app can be a home-cooked meal](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

wishinghand wrote: post #142

This reminds me of a blog post that I can’t find anymore. I sort of remember the title being a riff on “Cooking for One” but it might have been “Programming for One”. It was about the author making a little photo sharing app just for their family. Kind of like a snapchat clone, but invite only for friends and family, no public feed at all. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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

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Post by egypturnash »

bencollier49 wrote: post #36
egypturnash wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience as a Mastodon admin is that Pleroma is popular among people with anime girl avatars who like to post swastikas, ethnic slurs, and right-wing propaganda.

Why's that then?

Hell if I know. But it's a definite trend I've noticed.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

worldofmatthew wrote: post #77
upofadown wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't the person running the forum simply not abuse their users by not exploiting their personal data for commercial gain? How hard is that?

GDPR is harder than that, there is a bunch of legal stuff and having to have someone legally responsible to follow the more vague parts of the GDPR. GDPR is not just "not exploiting their personal data for commercial gain" but a lot of busy work with massive fines if you make any mistakes. How is most community forums going to work with that?

I don't buy it -- GDPR is about protection of PII. Don't collect it, you're done.

OK, slightly flippant might take half an afternoon of training for all staff.

https://gdpr.eu/checklist/

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

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Post by iriri8 »

brnt wrote: post #55
drorco wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been like that with many multiplayer games to some extent before the age of matchmaking. Someone sets up a dedicated server with certain mods/game configuration, and that would be yours and other randoms favorite server. Over time, you'd actually become a community. I've gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the…

Perhaps it isn't surprising that when interaction is designed to be disposable and replaceable, i.e. matchmaking, no real community can form.

i.e. social media

All big tech is selling is mindless churn

Reality TV has become life

Why? Because we’re destroying the planet consuming it so we need to build rockets to escape!

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

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Post by dpeck »

btbuildem wrote: post #141
dpeck wrote: post #136

It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale, and most of that already happens over private chat platforms. I help curate networks for my fraternity (US, college for those of you not familiar with it). Many of us are in the same or related career fields, and there’s a few hobbies that are common to find in the group (sports, music, etc). These are people who, for the most part,…

> It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale I think that's exactly the point. OP wants a human-sized community, without the cancerous mandate of growth. It's meant to be a bulletin board for your immediate community, around dozens of people in size on average.

I guess we have different ideas of small handful. I’m not thinking continuous growth, I’m thinking things in the range of Dunbars number.

Personally I haven’t seen anything work for more than about 5-10 people, and group chat really works fine at the < 10 scale in my opinion.

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

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Post by bee_rider »

MisterTea wrote: post #100
drorco wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been like that with many multiplayer games to some extent before the age of matchmaking. Someone sets up a dedicated server with certain mods/game configuration, and that would be yours and other randoms favorite server. Over time, you'd actually become a community. I've gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the…

> I've gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the sense of community in MP games. I used to enjoy playing TF2 until 2013/14 or so. I settled into the No Heroes servers and after a while you get to know people. You pop on, see familiar names, say hello and you'd have a good time. It was like a small town which had a lot of…

In Valve's defense, not a ton of games make it past a decade with a healthy playerbase, right?

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Anyone remember Opera Unite, https://web.archive.org/web/20091120143058/http://my.opera.c...

I was all-in on it being a new decentralisation of the web, that Facebook et al. would become syndicators of our broadcast content. We'd publish the content from our own computers and online services would cache it for access, but it would always be available as long as there was a direct route from my home computer to yours.

Still, I see that this sort of system could happen, basically a web-mesh.

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