how to monetize?
There's a store selling swag (A hat and a floppy with the source to the site - coming soon!?)
Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists
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#32I'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.
Your comment makes me wonder...what is HN's spam volume?
I never see any.
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#34I'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 don't think they take security any less seriously than most social networks. If you're worried the sending/receiving servers have access to the email address, then it seems you would have to be equally concerned account recovery via email considering most email is not encrypted.
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#35I'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.
HN audience is much more likely to use complex passwords, that are not reused elsewhere.
So the overall security level is probably still higher than elsewhere with 2FA, etc.
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#37Seems like Usenet ..
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#38Love it. I had a similar post-by-email idea for microblogging a while back: https://www.weejur.com . Generally love to see services that integrate with email.
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#39Posterous introduced this 'Post by Email' concept. Really loved the simplicity of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
I tried something along those lines a few years ago… https://publicemails.com
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#40I came here to say that I think both Posterous and Tumblr used to have this same feature. Well, it was just one of the multiple ways of publishing content back then, as opposed to being the way for this minimalist one....
Looks like Tumblr removed it [1]
Links to some Posterous articles about the feature [2]
[1] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16420/post-to-tu...
[2] https://www.guidingtech.com/1525/how-to-use-posterous-quickl...
What's old is new again.
Posterous was peak blogging and content sharing for me, btw.