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

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Post by loceng »

judge2020 wrote: post #177
loceng wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

A lot of human time is sacrificed to maintain passwords for different websites; having a one-click sign in option saves a lot of people the time and headache of having to deal with a compromised account or forgotten password years in the future.

Who you give the gatekeeping keys to has importance and value.

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

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Post by nightski »

newsclues wrote: post #262
nightski wrote: post #205

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I don't have skin in this game and will probably never use it anyways, but to me that is a non starter for this whole project. Why would I want to limit how often my friends can post? The problem with FB isn't that my friends post to much, it's that I never see what my friends post.

Why would I want to limit my speed in my own car? Because others exist

This argument makes sense to me in a public space, like twitter. But among a close knit group of friends? Not one bit. They are directly advertising this as a space built for "friends", not influencers. Having to time-filter your friends sounds like a really negative friendship dynamic.

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

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Post by kiwicopple »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #165
chetanbhasin wrote: post #158

Tried to sign up but got the rate limit error.

Oh, fascinating. Was it a Supabase thing? I haven't run into that before. If you have any more details, I'd love to hear. You could comment here or email team@slowsocial.us

supabase ceo here. Did you set up a custom SMTP? We have rate-limiting on the signup emails by default to protect against malicious users.

We also have some DDoS protection (via cloudflare), but it don't think this would have triggered it. Feel free to reach out to support if you need any assistance (https://app.supabase.io/support/new)

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

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Post by FollowingTheDao »

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…

Sorry, but why not just send an email to all your friends once a week?

I have no idea why we think we need to complicate our relationships with any third party...

The only reason why social media works is because it is horrible and addictive, Your product is neither of those, so it will never work.

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

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Post by Spivak »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #354
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…

Sorry, but why not just send an email to all your friends once a week? I have no idea why we think we need to complicate our relationships with any third party... The only reason why social media works is because it is horrible and addictive, Your product is neither of those, so it will never work.

3rd parties like email hosting providers or messaging services?

Pull works better for stories/updates because then the reader has control over how often they want to check in an see what their friends are doing.

“Oh but if you wanted that you could just something something with e-mail rules something something Dropbox curl ftpfs.”

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

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Post by sacrosancty »

darawk wrote: post #283
sacrosancty wrote: post #269

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Your ideas and the OPs sound like solving drug addiction by offering a new less addictive drug. Obviously the addicts will continue using the addictive ones! I think the social problems can only be solved by legislation because the existence of even one Facebook is already the problem.

As a former opiate addict myself, I don't think that's true at all. Moving the choices of addiction from the simple parts of the brain to the higher parts is the whole game. If at any time while I was an addict, you had told me "I'll give you a week's supply, but after that, you can never use again", i'd have made that deal every time, even if I knew it would be enforced. The problem of addiction is the problem of in…

While your example deal might work, that's not what new social media services are doing. They aren't preventing users from using the existing ones whenever they feel the urge.

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

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Post by sujal »

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…

This is great, and I really appreciate the time you took to explain your thinking. I have similar feelings about the social networks out there, and I’m working on my own take on what I want. It’s very different than what you did, so I’m curious to try yours out and see what everyone has to say. We need more experiments like this - unabashedly anti-engagement and pro-utility.

Good luck with this!

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

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Post by judge2020 »

loceng wrote: post #351
judge2020 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of human time is sacrificed to maintain passwords for different websites; having a one-click sign in option saves a lot of people the time and headache of having to deal with a compromised account or forgotten password years in the future.

Who you give the gatekeeping keys to has importance and value.

The only other option is passwordless webauthn which has a lot of downsides compared to social sign in. Allowing people to sign in with social is a personal choice that i'm happy many sites give the option of using.

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

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Post by loceng »

judge2020 wrote: post #359
loceng wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who you give the gatekeeping keys to has importance and value.

The only other option is passwordless webauthn which has a lot of downsides compared to social sign in. Allowing people to sign in with social is a personal choice that i'm happy many sites give the option of using.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be an option but we should be conscious of who we give that login data to and how they're use/benefit from it and then misuse or waste the value they extract from it; be conscious of who we reward with our actions.
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