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Re: 1M Users

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Post by grishka »

massimosgrelli wrote: post #53

It's incredible how this type of revival from the past gained such meaningful traction, but, in a way, I fully understand it. The online world has become so confusing that many desire a simple one. The same feeling drove me to adopt Threads over Twitter/X—even if I still use them both.

The problem is that all mainstream social media has degenerated into entertainment. Staying up to date about the lives of people you know irl is seemingly no longer their intended purpose.

But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that implements this type of social network with ActivityPub support: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

It's beta quality for now and I'm not promoting it much yet, but I hope to bring it to 1.0 by the end of this year.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by lelanthran »

blitzar wrote: post #65
apples_oranges wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what advertisers want vs what users want

The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.

> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.

I'm not on X, so I don't know, but IME on every other place on the internet since forever is that the loudest, dumbest users ARE the advertisers.

An environment that monetarily rewards users pushing their message into other peoples faces performs an environmental selection to make the advertisers the loudest and dumbest users.

Re: 1M Users

#83

Post by Heliodex »

It's been over a year and a half since I was last able to access their site at all without seeing just a "403 Forbidden" page.

Re: 1M Users

#84

Post by plufz »

Kiro wrote: post #67
sqeaky wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advan…

While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.

I feel sort of ehh the same but also the opposite. I feel with both slack and discord that they are a little better than IRC. But that I so easily can see those features being implemented in IRC and I feel really sad history didn’t go in that direction. What if IRC had became the standard in the same way email did. IRC was so great and I miss it. I know ppl still use it, but I don’t even think I have a client anymore.

Learning to program as a kid in the 90s and getting that 28.8k modem with direct chat access to adults at Apple and later Sun/Java was amazing.

Re: 1M Users

#85

Post by marcus_holmes »

draxil wrote: post #63
marcus_holmes wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of banning an IP address?

Some people (like me) have a fixed IP for their internet connection. Although this isn't super common any more.

Yeah, it's really only tech folk who have fixed IP addresses, and they're usually too busy futzing around with servers to post shite on social sites ;)

Most IP connections are dynamic, and always were. Assuming that a person is synonymous with an IP connection makes no sense to me.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by z3t4 »

grishka wrote: post #81
massimosgrelli wrote: post #53

It's incredible how this type of revival from the past gained such meaningful traction, but, in a way, I fully understand it. The online world has become so confusing that many desire a simple one. The same feeling drove me to adopt Threads over Twitter/X—even if I still use them both.

The problem is that all mainstream social media has degenerated into entertainment. Staying up to date about the lives of people you know irl is seemingly no longer their intended purpose. But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that imp…

You should add some screenshots or video to the Readme, I'm too lazy to build it just to experience it.

Re: 1M Users

#90

Post by WoodenChair »

Whatever you think of the site itself, this is prime HN content. A kid in high school starts a site that scales to 1,000,000 registered users while working on it during nights and weekends in college. If the founder is on here, what tech stack did you use and how long had you been programming before you built it?
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