The real social network has become WhatsApp - lots of small private groups with nothing in them but messages from people in the group.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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#322This will be the ONLY social media my kids are allowed to use.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the same thing that prevented Bluesky from ever being good. That's not it at all. Bluesky is simply just too political. X is too political. Bluesky is too political. When you focus on content and sharing and having a good time, then the network takes off. I'm not saying politics isn't important. I'm saying it can't become the miasma that pervades the entire service and makes the entire point of the social network c…
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>Twitter is a haven for people who are fans of generating non-consensual porn of others, white supremacy/white nationalism, murder of innocent civilians, and other reprehensible things.
It's really not. It's where everyone is right now. The Trots and Maoists. The demsoc local politicians. The vegan militant organizers. Etc. You can also include whatever shitty group you want to cherry pick to make your disingenuous ass argument. And when you do, post it to Bluesky where people can get a dopamine rush with you as they shake their heads and smile and post how horrible it is.
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#324Have you spent much time thinking about how the feed will work? Balancing the “quality” and enjoyment with the prioritization of “people you met in person”. I’m sure I’m far from the only one who misses the old Facebook feed, but curious what a modern take on that would look like.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
They dictate the capabilities that their device is offered and how the device is designed. It is up to the consumer to decide if that is worth the price of the device.
I don't think that's the way to look at it. There are standards for interoperability and user-friendliness with all kinds of devices, and we should expect the same from modern devices. It would have been pretty peculiar and unacceptable if your telephone in the 80s couldn't call your neighbour because the telephone company just decided to not make them interoperable, why shouldn't it be the same here?
Email probably could not happen today.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine how it would be possible to detect a phone in close proximity without allowing this though
Accelerometer, by putting the two phones together and shaking (some app used to do this, but I can't find it with a quick search). Edit: I might have been thinking of Bump, mentioned downthread, though it's a different physical mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application) Camera, and point it at their changing screen (or both at the same scene at the same moment). Not too intrusive. GPS, but that would…
slightly OT but the technology behind Bump was genuinely mindblowing at the time. Phones didn't have NFC or anything like that, and they didn't use much accuracy in the way of location data, so they basically just had a general "city block" location, timestamp, and accelerometer readings and would invert the accelerometer reading and look for identical accel + timestamp.
We tested it one time with like 10 phones and everyone bumping each other / the wall as a control, in the same room and it nailed every actual pairing and ignored the others. The wiki has more, but lacks the subjective experience of how magic it was.
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#327I was going to complain about being the first given that I never used it, but indeed, Hi5 and My Space came an year later.
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> $20k dollars in bitcoin (I can’t say how much bitcoin that is because it fluctuates too much to be a stable currency), to buy a dead domain that makes $9k a year in at revenue That's...a good deal? Assuming even 50% margins, that's a solid yield.
It’s nothing of value buying nothing of value. If you only see dollars and not the utter nonsense you’re either young or not very bright.
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#329I have to ask, what is the difference between this and private WhatsApp groups?
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#330> this failed Apple App Store review because of Guideline 4.2 — Design — Minimum Functionality. They said “the usefulness of the app is limited because it seems to be intended for a small, or niche, set of users. Specifically, the app is intended for invited friends only.” This is why we need laws regulating mobile platforms. Apple shouldn't be able to dictate what you use your phone for, or what apps you can give to…
You know that websites are a thing, and you can visit them from your phone?