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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.
Fleeting idea that could be combined with that: a web-of-trust social network where you can only "friend" people in real life, by tapping phones. When you do so, the app might say, "The person you just met claims to be Joe Schmoe, do you want to vouch for them?" If you approve them, they can message you and vice versa. A friend of Joe's can see you in his friend list, and try to message you, and you can accept it if…
You've just re-invented group texts. The thing is: people don't want limited reach. Why would anyone sign up for a network that limits everything they say to be visible to less than a dozen people? What's the incentive? With numbers like that I could just go outside. So many "Let's solve a problem about social networks" ideas turn out to be "let's remove or limit the reason people use social networks in the first pla…
Reach is the fundamental flaw from both operational and social standpoints. It makes the world worse.
We regulate heroin for the same reason. Although this argument makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I do believe all drugs should be legal and regulated. I'm not entirely sure which opinion will hold after I reconcile this conflict.
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Great idea. To add: I think the site would also need a rock star moderator who diligently checks every comment and keeps the site clean. Also maybe it would be great to have a voting system where one could downvote as well! But only after a certain number of upvotes I think.
Let's also have zero notification whatsoever that someone answered to your comment so you have to keep engaged in constantly looking thru it manually
I think HN has the perfect amount of users, we don't need this to turn into Reddit. I learn more here than with any other website, but it needs to stay relatively small.
If tomorrow HN had to appeal to everyone we'd have click bait all over the place, along with ads.
Fleeting idea that could be combined with that: a web-of-trust social network where you can only "friend" people in real life, by tapping phones. When you do so, the app might say, "The person you just met claims to be Joe Schmoe, do you want to vouch for them?" If you approve them, they can message you and vice versa. A friend of Joe's can see you in his friend list, and try to message you, and you can accept it if…
Marrying digital with physical is an interesting approach. The problem of proximity is a unique point of friction which might also temper digital communication.
If the application "lived" on cellphones and communicated with a P2P protocol, users could truly own their data (excluding the data they share with their network).