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Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by CitrusFruits »

derekzhouzhen wrote: post #169

How is it any different than old style blogging? The whole social network thing is a attention grabbing game. Blogging, on the other hand, is talking into the void: I don't need anyone. All past attempts to combined the best parts of both has been combining the worst part of both: no freedom of speech and no audience.

I'd argue it's different because it has better privacy controls. Instead of all your content being public, it's all private and you can share it to a non Slow Social member via email. Additionally, it's a more focused, concentrated experience.

Otherwise, feel free to make blog posts. I think blogs are great.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

jimkleiber wrote: post #99
distantsounds wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called RSS. and a feed reader. I swear, people are too busy re-inventing the wheel when it already exists. use one of the literal hundreds of free services to write what you want and syndicate it. and use the same system to ingest exactly what you want. We hit the nail on the head 2 decades ago. It's been rusting since.

That works for the consumption side, but at least from what I've seen (it's been a while), the feed readers don't have so much share/comment/like side to them. Frankly, they seem to miss the social side. Again, maybe I'm just not using the right feed readers, but when I use some these days, they feel somewhat isolated, just receiving info, not also sending it.

Shameless plug: Airss does that. https://airss.roastidio.us

The reader can be used without login. To comment and share, you need to login to https://roastidio.us (free open registration)

Warning: I have very few users. So you will still feel isolated, unless you can gather a community yourself.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by FFRefresh »

murphyslab wrote: post #178
bityard wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP but I think the answer for this is that communication of medical/health issues is best handled by a more private form of media.

For medical issues, I agree that private is usually best; or at least restricted to close friends and family. Imminent death often has an adjacent position, where people commonly wish to share with a broader audience. However it was just an example of an emergency where one might strongly desire to update a broad range of friends and family quickly. Other situations might be natural disasters or a house fire where on…

I sometimes wonder whether our goal of making everything as convenient & frictionless as possible is part of our problem. By serving some of our short-term interests, are we jeopardizing our long-term interests?

I'm personally okay with seeing products that have well-intended friction built into them.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by metamet »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #64
typeofhuman wrote: post #59

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If it hasn't been mentioned, you should learn from the social media app Path. It limited the amount of friends you could have. As a result, people didn't add friends because they didn't want to give up a space for a potential future connection. The scarcity worked against Path. You might find the same result where people won't post because they'll be afraid of using up their allotment when they may have a better one…

Thanks, that's a good tip! I'll definitely check them out. And yup, definitely a concern. Makes me think that perhaps there's a possibility to not cap the posts, but rather have any posts outside of the first one in a week have something like a "secondary" tag. Then again, you might run into the problem that Instagram has where everyone stopped posting as soon as stories caught on. Alas, it's a tricky problem.

The ability to edit the weekly post seems like it could remedy this. Would probably see folks embrace the journaling approach by using headers to timestamp them.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by civilized »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #146
waveywaves wrote: post #141

If rich text formatting is your feature proposal for a social media network should I even care about it. Users care about a larger abstracted view about what you can do differently with what you can do with the smn interface. Flaunting rich text formatting feels like a core developer's achivement rather than a technology achievement. Do correct me if I am wrong.

I think what I was trying to get across is that you can do things more in a blog post styles as opposed to Twitter style quick bites. But maybe you're right it's not worth mentioning. The copy for the site hasn't gone through any focus group testing or anything like that.

I think it's a good feature. The FB text box is almost insulting in its lack of features and options.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by manmal »

Lamad123 wrote: post #157
CitrusFruits wrote: post #9

Hey everyone, OP here. I, like many others tend to waffle between loving and hating social media, so this is my take on what I think a better solution looks like. This is something I've been working on for the past couple of months and a concept that I think will be though provoking, if nothing else, to the HN community. If you want to read more on my thoughts and the story behind this, you can check out my blog post…

One post per week is too limiting!! There are days when I want to talk to or mention 10 friends!

Why not IM those friends?

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by CitrusFruits »

loceng wrote: post #167
privatdozent wrote: post #150

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Question: Does encouraging people to sign up with FB (bc it is faster/easier) also have the unwanted consequence of preventing them from leaving FB in the future? If they are signed up through to Slow Social via FB, can they still log in manually if their FB account has been deleted?

I see it as more of providing a false signal of adoption or success: if people need the friction to be as little as clicking a single button to "sign up" then they're not very convinced or committed to trying something new and likely not willing to invest time actually engaging with the system; all major platforms today used tricks or first mover mechanics for engagement to keep enough people on the platform long eno…

It's really about reducing friction, not pumping up numbers. This is bootstrapped, not investor backed so there's no reason to skew the numbers.

As for the candy analogy, I think that's a bit cynical if all you're critiquing is the login system without looking at the actual application. Lots of quality applications provide login via Facebook: Spotify, Notion, Airbnb, etc. It has nothing to do with the actual apps itself, it's just the doorway.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by sunshi23 »

What value does this provide at all? This reminds me of Chinese online games will block teenagers at night. (防沉迷) Except that the government forced all online games to do so. Because if some does some does not, teenagers just play the one that does not block them.

Maybe we should build a system that have user's actual password to FB IG TWTR TIKTOK, and user only has password to that system and when they post go through that system as a proxy. Then the system can truly restrict the frequency of post.

But this violates the term of service of all the social network listed above

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by typeofhuman »

metamet wrote: post #185
CitrusFruits wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that's a good tip! I'll definitely check them out. And yup, definitely a concern. Makes me think that perhaps there's a possibility to not cap the posts, but rather have any posts outside of the first one in a week have something like a "secondary" tag. Then again, you might run into the problem that Instagram has where everyone stopped posting as soon as stories caught on. Alas, it's a tricky problem.

The ability to edit the weekly post seems like it could remedy this. Would probably see folks embrace the journaling approach by using headers to timestamp them.

That would be great!

I'm sick of articles needing follow ups or corrections instead get a separate, unlinked post.

Articles become stale but they get shared and referenced as if they're the final point on the subject.

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