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Ambitious. Very hard to achieve. But if we use go, github and discord for building the "anti big tech" stack - then we have failed from the start.
Otherwise it looked very interesting, I like the idea of a flat-fee structure without subscriptions.
Is this related to the defunct mu.app from a few years back?
Ambitious. Very hard to achieve. But if we use go, github and discord for building the "anti big tech" stack - then we have failed from the start.
Go is a programming language. It’s not exactly pushing google’s ad agenda. Your criticism of using github and discord are somewhat valid, but asking people to re-invent the wheel while they re-invent the bicycle seems like arbitrarily making up rules so everyone fails. Is there some influence you expect to leak into their platform thru github or discord?
Why am I unable to test any of it's features without being prompted to install a Chromium "app"?
I don't know that there's much value to, for example, creating another web based YouTube front-end when Invidious exists
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Go is a programming language. It’s not exactly pushing google’s ad agenda. Your criticism of using github and discord are somewhat valid, but asking people to re-invent the wheel while they re-invent the bicycle seems like arbitrarily making up rules so everyone fails. Is there some influence you expect to leak into their platform thru github or discord?
> It’s not exactly pushing google’s ad agenda. Maybe not their ad agenda, but certainly one of their agendas. Specifically, the agenda they have to get young, inexperienced developers prepared for specifically the software development practices they employ internally. It was directly stated that "Go is not for clever developers" and that their target is recent graduates with limited experience. It punishes you for tr…
If you’re working on a greenfield project in a team of one then I suppose it’s great to get in an expressive mood and emit your code poetry from those fingertips.
It’s very different to inherit a quirky puzzle and reverse engineer a mental model from there.
I guess I just look at the way tech is now and feel disappointed. Its very addictive, "social" yet lonely. I don't find the alternative networks like Reddit, Mastodon, etc much better. I have held off doing anything, cut back most of my social usage but still found problems and years ago, yes I tried to make this idea work and shut it down. But I've felt like I really needed a solution, and so I use this everyday as an alternative to other forms of media consumption. And the hope is longer term it continues to develop as a useful utility. I'll keep investing time in, slowly iterating, figuring out what works and what doesn't. I'm not looking to gamify it or seeking fame or notoriety. Tbh, if it stays small great, if I can figure out how to make "conversational networks" [1] work even better. Anyway, happy to answer questions.
They say that it's free from algorithms, but I found several uses of hash maps just from a quick glance through the source.