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Re: 1M Users

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Post by Mashimo »

sigseg1v wrote: post #128
pjc50 wrote: post #97

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> Feels snappy. I wonder if this is just everyone else using it on massive gamer PCs and me using it on mobile/chromebook, but .. no. It it is not snappy. The process of fetching all the new messages and rendering them takes up to a second. I don't understand why people who insist on 60fps games are happy with a 1fps chat app, but I guess they don't have that experience.

I'm using a $6000 gaming rig I put together and Discord is one of the worst performing apps I use, so I'm with you on this one.

Could this be an internet connection issue?

Do you even have slow performance when switching between two channels that are "loaded"?

Re: 1M Users

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Post by DiscourseFan »

throwaway48540 wrote: post #164
aethertron wrote: post #142

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Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.

But it's still your expression , or put another way an expression of you . Imagine art critics studying your art - they would be asking what was your history, context, what happened to you and what was going through your head that made you do this. It's always about you, even - maybe especially, considering that defeating one's ego is still noteworthy - if you don't want it to be about you. Making art that's not abou…

I would hope that my art is not just for art critics

Re: 1M Users

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Post by mawise »

can3p wrote: post #100

Nice! Personally I think that the more niche social networks we have the better it is. The big problem with the mainstream networks is that they've evolved from a media to communicate and keep in touch with real people into a platform for influencers and businesses. The common complaint I hear about instagram for example is that every second connection of yours would try to sell/teach something and that's just garbag…

I've got to chime in here, because of how much this overlaps with the project I've been working on called Haven[1].

A lot of these problems go away with a decentralized/open-source private model. If your posts aren't public then there is no spam. If everyone runs their own node of open-source (or better yet: open-protocol, ie RSS) software, then there is no centralized entity able to have incentives of profiting off the platform.

Information propagation speed is a good call-out as dangerous. Even with all the spam/shilling/trills removed, it still leads to the girl who's having a great time on her snowboarding trip until she posts pictures on Instagram and drops into a foul mood because not enough people immediately liked her posts.

I'd love to connect and share thoughts, feel free to reach out[2]/

[1]: https://github.com/havenweb/haven

[2]: https://havenweb.org/contact.html

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Post by DiscourseFan »

simplify wrote: post #148
seanthemon wrote: post #136

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

First, humility is an under-appreciated virtue in today's world. Second, the idea of "your work and art are an expression of you" is dangerously self-centered, in that it can limit your growth by pushing you conform to acceptance over aspiration.

No, I am extremely self-centered. The fact that I can create great things only adds to my own greatness as a person, but I recognize that my personal greatness will always be eclipsed by the greatness of my works.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by justusthane »

Apocryphon wrote: post #177
mg wrote: post #133

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

But does he run it on Linux?

Almost certainly

Edit: I said this because he's using PHP, MySQL, and I assumed Apache. But now I see in another comment that he's using ColdFusion, and indeed the server returns an X-Powered-By ColdFusion header. So now I'm confused. PHP on ColdFusion? Or maybe he’s just having the server return a bogus ColdFusion header as a nod to MySpace?

Re: 1M Users

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Post by nunobrito »

can3p wrote: post #144
nunobrito wrote: post #134

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Good post. Have you already took a look into NOSTR? It permits both private/niche communities and public (global) texts.

Just checked it, thanks for pointing to it. I think it's more of a decentralized encrypted messaging platform, and my idea was to have a way constrain the visibility of the conversations to naturally connected groups of people while giving a way to slowly expand the connections rather then fighting censorship More or less like in real life, where you chat a lot with your friends, but necessarily with some of their fr…

By default all texts are open. There is encrypted messaging, albeit only used for private messages inside a group or to another person.

What you mention could be achieved with the a nostr relay. Just permit inside who you want, but anyone can keep participating on internet at large with exactly the same account.

But if you want to moderate everything inside, then likely mastodon or a traditional web forum might be more suited.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by twobitshifter »

lelanthran wrote: post #79
Sparkyte wrote: post #5

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When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…

> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network. We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks. People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outw…

why would they want discord when they have emacs?

Re: 1M Users

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Post by rcxdude »

lelanthran wrote: post #79
Sparkyte wrote: post #5

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When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…

> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network. We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks. People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outw…

Lack of visibility is kind of the point for most of those users. Discord's a replacement for a group chat, not a facebook/myspace page. It was literally designed so those groups of 5-10 friends who play video games together online didn't need to faff about with a private forum, an IRC, and a voice chat server. The primary competition was Skype until Microsoft killed it. The last thing they want is randos butting in.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by rcxdude »

rchaud wrote: post #158
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.

I think it's more about the network effect: the point of social networks is to talk with your friends, so you want to be on a network your friends are on.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by helboi4 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #179
helboi4 wrote: post #92

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I have been addicted to ig. Still can be if I let myself. Reddit can also get me hard. Whatsapp groups I actually love because there's nothing to scroll. Just people lmk about an event and I can interact with them like a human, and I can go to the event. I get to know about things and I don't have to interact with meaningless content alongside it. I love it. What exactly is wrong with Whatsapp groups other than that…

I uninstalled Reddit. The noise:signal ratio was getting too small to make the effort worth it. This one I don't actually blame on the social media company, though Reddit are busy enshittifying it. Though I don't really understand why or how HN promotes good conversations and Reddit promotes trolling and ignorance. It can't just be Dang ;)

Yeah I uninstall it and then I reinstall it every now and then for a bit. HN is infinitely better though limited in scope
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