I believe a cool initiative would be to create a mastodon instance with the domain
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you don't want to see posts from stale connections.
I assume you would just unfollow them if you want to stop seeing their posts? It sounded more like the person I was talking to was more concerned with follower counts being accurate, which doesn’t seem relevant for feed algorithms.
No, I definitely wouldn't waste the 5 seconds it takes to unfollow someone. I'd rather spend that 5 seconds on the next interesting item instead.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main driver for making it into an app and not just a web page was the need to send push notifications. Of course, I just needed it for myself: hey, it's time to stop working and start driving to school to pick up the kid – "notify me 30 minutes before the last period ends" given that the schedule is different every day; then I just shared it with other parents. There is a web version (it's Flutter so it was easy…
If you add a web page (a PWA) to the home screen, it can do push messages on iOS since a couple of years.
there still a lot of jank. on ios u can only doo this with safari, and even then u loose actual safari niceties like trad browser ui. and idk why but it op ens link in actual safari even if its the same app. unless u have a single page app that does nothing this is not a viable route/.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#344> Friendster was the first social network Friendster was not the first social network. sixdegrees.com had it beat by 5 years.
AOL has them beat by another 5. You need to go back to ARPA to find the first one. Social networks are just networks with humans at each end.
That's not how the term is being used. Six Degrees had all the features we associate with a social network, such as profiles, and the ability to create connections.
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#345> 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…
Apple also shouldn't force you to use Safari if you install Chrome on iOS, but so far the DOJ hasn't followed through with the antitrust lawsuit started under the previous administration. I guess gold participation trophies are enough to work around lawsuits depending on who is in charge.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I struggled with Guideline 4.2 when I tried to publish an app showing the bell schedule and other local information for the neighborhood school. Why would you not just make this a webpage, and then the users could add it to home page as if it were an app? no Apple review necessary then. What does it being an app give you besides bureaucratic headaches?
Users are /very/ not used to how to install PWAs to their home screen. Also, in the EU it just opens the site up in your browser, no lack of browser UI like you'd expect. Apple is wonderful. Edit: It seems I never got the news they reversed course on that particular idea of theirs.
I really hate it when the browser UI gets hidden. It loses me several great features like the ability to open multiple tabs. Or have a bookmark directly to a subpage.
Unfortunately some other features are only available to PWA do it's a tradeoff either way.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#347Interesting project. I bought the domain name for a startup I worked for in the early 2000s. It was just there to be bought from the regular registrar process -- no need to bid or pay more than a few $. This article makes me want to do something with it. I don't own the trademark.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#348Who visits those long expired domains to generate ad revenue? People nostalgic? People who hear this Friendster thing and want to check out what they are doing now?
Right? And who clicks the popups? I have no clue about the economics of online ads, but my understanding is, it is cents per click. This would mean hundreds of thousands visits per year? Sounds like there are bots involved to me.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#349> 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…
I don’t believe that the government should police what types of computers I can build. I occasionally tinker with hardware myself and have been thinking up ways to build a smartphone differently. If I want to make the device so that it only interoperates with a certain class of items, I would rather build nothing at all than be forced by the government to interop with everything, which is also a costly thing to devel…
>I don’t believe that the government should police what types of computers I can build.
They already do, one of the reasons it's so hard to make a smartphone is all the FCC regulations on radios.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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I've been thinking about this because I'm working on an internal company tool. It's a web app but I was thinking about creating mobile apps. In the age of agentic coding, that's no longer a massive undertaking like it used to be. However, I'm completely blocked by Apple app store review. There's no way an app designed for 30 people would pass. I can't get an internal app onto people's phone. I could release it as a t…
You should be using an enterprise cert for this. You won’t have any issues with enrollment or distribution that way.
We don't meet the requirements. Large organizations only. Minimum of 100 employees.