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Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

dmitriid wrote: post #28
louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

Looks nice but... Why dies it take up to two seconds to display author name on the explore page? :) Edit: and all other pages.

On it. I hope it's faster now.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

yawnxyz wrote: post #24
louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

I found your project through Dense Discovery ( https://www.densediscovery.com/ ) and fell in love with it, and I thought more people should discover it!

Thank you so much for sharing it here. You made my day, and possibly my week/month. Grateful.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by philosopher1234 »

olah_1 wrote: post #30

> Private likes. > Private responses. > Private subscriber counts. > No status games. No trolls. No pressure. This is the real differentiator. Do you still use algorithms around likes and follows to recommend users to each other and such? Those data points actually are useful to get people more connected to the network and help them find their community

Unfortunately also probably the reason it won’t gain traction

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

olah_1 wrote: post #30

> Private likes. > Private responses. > Private subscriber counts. > No status games. No trolls. No pressure. This is the real differentiator. Do you still use algorithms around likes and follows to recommend users to each other and such? Those data points actually are useful to get people more connected to the network and help them find their community

Hey! Glad this resonates with you. At the moment there are no algorithms by design. I want to make Nicheless a more closed network. A place to discover and discuss ideas from people you already know in real life or from other spaces on the internet. Not a space to discover new people.

I've expanded a bit on that thought here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

Here's an excerpt from that post:

"I want Nicheless to grow into a place where you come to read the thoughts of people you know. To take a dip into the depths of your friends' minds. And to turn those excursions into conversations – both online and IRL.

In the ideal scenario, I imagine a bunch of friends following each other, each publishing without fear of public judgment, and then occasionally discussing what they read and wrote about when they meet in real life."

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

philosopher1234 wrote: post #33
olah_1 wrote: post #30

> Private likes. > Private responses. > Private subscriber counts. > No status games. No trolls. No pressure. This is the real differentiator. Do you still use algorithms around likes and follows to recommend users to each other and such? Those data points actually are useful to get people more connected to the network and help them find their community

Unfortunately also probably the reason it won’t gain traction

You're probably right. I'm going to try and be an idealist for as long as I can though :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by swidi »

I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.

These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

mintysoap wrote: post #23
louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

I really like this, and I like the first few random posts I read. Is there a way to view the newest public posts? Discover seems to show random posts from months ago.

The discover page is currently just a bunch of manually curated posts from the platform. I don't want to create a feed of the latest posts because a lot of folks are just experimenting on the platform and it will end up being an overwhelming, incoherent feed, something that i'm trying to actively design against.

My goal is to have people invite their friends and other people they know to write on the platform, and follow their nicheless blogs. When that is the case, the default feed will end up being populated with posts that will be more contextual. However, I will admit I am not sure how to reach this goal just yet. It's still early days and I'm still experimenting.

Happy to hear any ideas :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

leke wrote: post #36

Very nice, Louis. How do you plan to make money from this?

Thanks Leke. I currently have no clue. I don't want to pursue the advertising route unless I absolutely have to. I might try and take some inspiration from Twitter Blue and create something similar in the future. The platform is still in its early days though, so I want to see where it goes before making any rash decisions.

Got ideas? I'm happy to hear them!

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

welanes wrote: post #18

Nice job. No RSS though as far as I can tell. For something slightly less minimal but very nice to use, I stumbled across this the other day: https://blogstatic.io/ Feels likes - after being crowded out by FB and Twitter (and the death of Google Reader) - blogs are making a comeback.

Thanks! You're right, there's currently no RSS. Might change that in the future, but I haven't given it much thought just yet.

I agree that blogs are making a comeback. It's about time. We're in need of some sort of detox after a decade of social media fuelled lives. Hopefully it leads to a more interesting, less overwhelming internet.

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