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Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
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#42I think of HN as being a social network already. There is no need for another 'social network' in the world, actually less would be best.
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#43> I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. And what is this concept? Hidden in this question is a strong undercurrent of "I'm an ideas person with a world changing idea. I can't share it because I believe that it's valuable. I just need engineers".
I just added it to the main post in order to help shape the conversation. I have no desire to lead a social media company.
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#44There is really only a single barrier: adoption. You have to figure out how you can get thousands of users to join and then if it's a good product it should start to snowball.
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#45I am sure it will work in browser with javascript disabled.
Not quite a social network but a new version of the web where documents are just markdown or something very similar and the browser is an unglorified document reader with no JavaScript has been on my mind for a while.
Gopher called
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're being social right now, on Hacker News.
You can even argue here!
I don’t know man. There are times when I genuinely want an argument to clarify my thoughts. There is zero argument- it just gets downvoted minus three. So then I sadly delete my comment. I usually assume since I’m not an American (wasn’t born here), am not able to get the nuances right, or maybe there’s some deep underlying social dynamics I’m unaware of. So better to just delete my comment and move on. These days I use HN primarily as mathoverflow - if I know how to work a problem I post. Otherwise best to shut my trap. HN isn’t the place for arguing- atleast not for me.
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#47I am sure it will work in browser with javascript disabled.
Not quite a social network but a new version of the web where documents are just markdown or something very similar and the browser is an unglorified document reader with no JavaScript has been on my mind for a while.
Sounds interesting. Let’s call the markup language “Hypertext Markup Language”, and we’ll make it XML-like versus Markdown-like so we have at least have a well-designed spec to work with. It won’t be pretty, but it’ll work well enough.
And let’s support JavaScript, but you can turn it off if you’d like.
Re: Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
#48I am sure it will work in browser with javascript disabled.
Not quite a social network but a new version of the web where documents are just markdown or something very similar and the browser is an unglorified document reader with no JavaScript has been on my mind for a while.
What distinguishing feature would it have to something like Gopher or Gemini[0]?
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#49Re: Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
#50Unpopular opinion: any social network, no matter how it’s architected will become terrible past a certain size. Perhaps some architectures will have different “maximum tolerable sizes” than others, but all will become intolerable once there is a large enough user base. More users, however, means more ad / tracking revenue, so these two ideas will always be at odds.
Agreed. Small, decentralised communities should be the way forward. We could call them forums ;-)
I miss forums. Discord has replaced forums in most of the communities I cared about and it’s been for the worse.