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Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by MonkeyClub »

asim wrote: post #84
asim wrote: post #82

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As I read your last point all I can think is, no one owns the earth, why should private companies own the digital space. It's frustrating when you can see the problem but not offer a solution. Mostly because the ideas are many but to execute is a multi decade endeavour. Not to get too serious but we're effectively talking about a problem that effects humanity and we now have a clown running the show. Elon is doing gr…

The irony is the fact that I have the time to write this highlights the dangers of idleness.

Hey, shoot the breeze, idleness deserves praise! (https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/)

> we now have a clown running the show

Nah not a clown, not even a Watchmen-esque Comedian.

If anything, he's a very conscious agent of (Capital-C!) Chaos, like the Joker.

Or, again, just another CIA puppet, who knows - dot dot dot :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by olah_1 »

louispereira wrote: post #34
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 g…

Consider: it’s easier to “be real” with random people that you dont know in real life.

With real life friends, people naturally self censor quite a lot.

But if you do want an IRL friend network, also consider a “friend” system. Because I don’t think fully public posts jives with your idea. If I just want to talk to friends, I don’t want to share with the world.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by ozdevi »

louispereira wrote: post #32
yawnxyz wrote: post #24

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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.

I've subscribed but I got this error while activate my subscription "The requested URL was not found on this server."

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by simjnd »

Oh right, forgot I needed to download 1 MB of stuff (incl. 750 kB of JS) for a tiny 6-line article [1]. Performance is absolutely abysmal. If you really want to use a JS framework that much, just use Astro so you don't ship all the unnecessary JS that bloats and slows down a tiny page. Until this is fixed, anyone would be much better off going for Bear Blog [2] or Mataroa [3].

[1]: https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well

[2]: https://bearblog.dev/

[3]: https://mataroa.blog/

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by wishinghand »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #58
rendaw wrote: post #52

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Every time this DIY reply comes it misses the fact that the platforms take care of commenting (account management, moderation), something that's more or less impossible for a DIY solution. Twitter/FB/etc make commenting painless because everyone has an account and is already logged in. This at least has the potential to get to that position. DIY doesn't.

I actually don’t want comments on my site. No comments, no user database. HN or Reddit can be my comment site, if anyone actually read my blog :P Or people can write their own blog post in response and host it on their site.

Cool. But do most others want that?

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by zeruch »

stormbrew wrote: post #22
zeruch wrote: post #7

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"While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll." Trolls are not lazy. If anything, their efforts are hype fixated.

I think it's a little more complicated than that. Trolls are often very fixated on their targets but they also tend to be impulsive and looking for quick fixes of glory. This is why things like shadow banning and slow modes and signup waiting periods work pretty well on them. Very few have the patience to wait for a fresh sock account that's limited to be useful.

"I think it's a little more complicated than that." Agreed, but decades of observation tell me there is more than enough supply across the shitpost to troll spectrum to go around :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by mintysoap »

louispereira wrote: post #38
mintysoap wrote: post #23

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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 fo…

Maybe a random post button? I sort of like the idea of experiencing the overwhelming incoherentness. I often find interesting stuff when clicking the “new” button on HN.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by alathon »

louispereira wrote: post #63
alathon wrote: post #60

This really resonates with me too. I already have a private Discord with just a few others who are both friends and work in software development, which serves as our closed-network way of discussing software and also a healthy dose of memes and real-life chat. Ive thought about inviting others who I'm less close to, because I'd welcome their contributions to those discussions, but there is always the fear of adding a…

Agreed. I haven't solved that problem myself. Most of my own friends haven't switched to Nicheless, although most of them don't write elsewhere either. To me, nicheless is an ideal space for those that are afraid to publish online to start doing so. I'm yet to figure out how to make that happen. I'll keep at it till I figure it out though.

Makes sense! One of the things stopping me from publishing is less about time or size of post, and more about focus and method. Nicheless definitely helps with focus/scope because of the limit on post length; perhaps you can incentivize if the platform provides helpful writing tips and suggestions? Just a thought, might be outside the scope of the platform.
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