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Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Hello, I do not know if someone from Daft is reading this thread, but you should not use contiguous ids https://daftsocial.com/daftsocial/?id=201

Doesn't that just help with discovery? That doesn't seem like a bad practice here.

Discovering random threads to spam in doesn't help with discovery for users.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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I'm sure they're not really overly concerned about security, but email addresses get logged everywhere on the Internet. Accounts would be pretty easy to hijack. Maybe that makes it more fun though.

I personally love low-security social networks. I consider HN to qualify (as you just need a username and password, no email verification). Small social networks can get away with it b/c they aren't big enough targets for abusers.

Account security is a bigger concern for the network than it is for the user. If someone steals my HN account, I won't really care (it's around my 5th account anyway). But if the hacker uses my account's reputation to evade spam filters, that becomes an issue for HN.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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I doubt this will go anywhere, but I still enjoyed reading it. The really clever part for me is the way it uses email to do most of the work. In particular: > Q: What if I lose my secret Daft Social email address? > A: If you already sent posts, you should find it in the sent emails folder. Brilliant.

Sort of a cut down mailing lists

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't that just help with discovery? That doesn't seem like a bad practice here.

Discovering random threads to spam in doesn't help with discovery for users.

You can't spam a thread if there is no "thread" feature implemented?

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally love low-security social networks. I consider HN to qualify (as you just need a username and password, no email verification). Small social networks can get away with it b/c they aren't big enough targets for abusers.

Account security is a bigger concern for the network than it is for the user. If someone steals my HN account, I won't really care (it's around my 5th account anyway). But if the hacker uses my account's reputation to evade spam filters, that becomes an issue for HN.

Most reputation scores are ephemeral, to cover the case you mentioned. I have never heard of a website that gives old accounts free passes to do whatever they way. They may have fewer restrictions initially, but if abuse is detected, they will still ban the account.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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I'm sure they're not really overly concerned about security, but email addresses get logged everywhere on the Internet. Accounts would be pretty easy to hijack. Maybe that makes it more fun though.

I personally love low-security social networks. I consider HN to qualify (as you just need a username and password, no email verification). Small social networks can get away with it b/c they aren't big enough targets for abusers.

Not exactly social media, but when Instapaper came out they only used usernames, no password. I think the idea was that no one would care enough to delete your read it later list, and it wasn’t big enough to draw much attention. I remember it being like this for quite a long time.
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