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Re: 1M Users

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Post by ineedaj0b »

pjc50 wrote: post #99
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

No, Twitter was never especially advertiser focused, although it did do a bit of "brand" stuff. The destruction of Twitter was because as a a "free speech platform" it naturally picked up the most aggressive, nastiest, confrontational politics. It then algorithmically shoved this in front of the people most likely to make retaliatory posts. It is dying because it now focuses on what the owner wants, which is a set of…

I still use X and it's still very good. It's tough rn (as it always was) 6 months before the big US election but it'll go back to normal. I've been on twitter since 2011 and it's been the same pattern all these years.

The secret, always is - follow new people in small increments and generously unfollow at the slightest annoyance. There are still lots of interesting people to find!

You'll discover there's people on both sides of political issues who can make their points and not be annoying about it but these are maybe 1-3% of political people. You can also completely ignore politics by being judicious with your unfollows.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by insane_dreamer »

Excellent achievement!! A good feel of the Internet before monetization poisoned it.

> I've stopped myself from working on any new features in the past months, but rather improve the existing ones and make SpaceHey overall a bit smoother.

Wise. Not everyone is willing to do the hard word of slogging behind the scenes with little or no visible changes to users, but it makes a huge difference. Kudos.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by jazzyjackson »

patcon wrote: post #75
high_priest wrote: post #66

Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM. I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces. Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish…

I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I felt like maybe 70% of comments I was reading might not be real. Everything, including HN, just seemed so predictable or unsurprising It was an altered state that felt like the leading…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization

Re: 1M Users

#154

Post by DiscourseFan »

seanthemon wrote: post #136
DiscourseFan wrote: post #121

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my work and art are more important than me

Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?

They are and at the same time they overcome me, they are more than just "me." And that is why the possibility for greatness lies in the artwork, and not the person.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by rambambram »

mg wrote: post #133
WoodenChair wrote: post #90

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?

He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL": https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947

I call CSS, HTML, Apache, MySQL and PHP the CHAMP stack for a reason. ;)

Re: 1M Users

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Post by rchaud »

grumple wrote: post #147
mg wrote: post #133

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He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL": https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947

So the same stack as 20+ years ago… good job, kid.

vDOM bros hate this one simple trick.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by riedel »

WoodenChair wrote: post #90

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?

Was launched on HN 3yrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245740

Re: 1M Users

#158

Post by rchaud »

ZacnyLos wrote: post #74

As long as this site doesn't implement the ActivityPub protocol, I don't see any reason for me to move to this site. I don't have time to maintain another account, and I want to keep in touch with people from Mastodon and Threads.

This feels like a very 2010s comment, when it was assumed that one has to be on every single social network app, copy/pasting the same 'content' into each of them, in order to be visible online. All that did was turn the net into a giant monoculture of hot takes and too-short posts. Only influencers and shovel-sellers need that.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by [deleted] »

rambambram wrote: post #155
mg wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL": https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947

I call CSS, HTML, Apache, MySQL and PHP the CHAMP stack for a reason. ;)

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Re: 1M Users

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Post by asdf6969 »

I love it. I’d like to make something similar.

> One million people from all over the world have used SpaceHey so far - an independently run platform that does not track you and does not show you personalized feeds nor ads.

Does anyone here know how it’s funded or what this would cost to host?

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