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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by chadpaulson »

arlattimore wrote: post #378
chadpaulson wrote: post #333

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I agree. There should be a hierarchy of intimacy, as it were, in order to initiate a friendship. * Tapping Phones * Confirming Phone Number * Confirming Email * Connected via Other Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, etc) As far as maintaining a friendship by tapping phones, again, I would make the friendships a constant and graph / rank intimacy by how often you tap phones as well as how connected you are to your…

I love the idea of hierarchy of intimacy, that is a great concept/phrase. I'd make it so you could tap a phone, you know their phone number, you know their email. Importantly in my eyes, you shouldn't be able to navigate to a profile and just ask to connect as that'd mean you could do that to people you don't actually know (whereby knowing is inferred by you knowing some amount of their personal info such as tap, pho…

Yeah, I agree after thinking about it. Connecting other social networks makes it difficult to distinguish Friendster as an intimate and honest platform free of spam.

The intimacy levels can be IRL (when you tap phones), Phone (when you friend via phone number) and Email (when you friend via email address). You could also measure the intimacy hierarchy / rank by keeping track of events (should events become a feature) you attend with other friends.

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Post by arthurgibson »

jona-f wrote: post #459

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A little over reaction here, they were very open about the process. Lets not take down the horse before the carriage. The article mentions they started "park.io" which was backordering domains, so at minimum expertise and some relevancy exists (was acquired).

Lets look at Friendster from a less foggier lense, its an attempt in the right direction. Use it or don't use it.

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Post by elicash »

fundatus wrote: post #458
avianlyric wrote: post #451

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It’s always been true. If you want to build a limited distribution app Apple has mechanisms for private distribution which is used by companies for internal apps etc They don’t want the App Store filled with app that can’t be used by the vast majority of people that might see and download it.

> If you want to build a limited distribution app Apple has mechanisms for private distribution which is used by companies for internal apps etc Yeah, but that wouldn't be an option for this app obviously. > They don’t want the App Store filled with app that can’t be used by the vast majority of people that might see and download it. Then they should add alternative methods. Instead they are actively sabotaging such…

I would have previously said I don't blame Apple for not prioritizing that rare use case.

But with so many people vibe-coding apps, I do think it'd be good if Apple simplified the experience for non-developers. I made a stupid little rhythm game ("Headbang") this weekend that is controlled by AirPods head movement and I'd love to share it with two people and two people only. They would run it once and then never again.

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Post by gk1 »

e12e wrote: post #431

> All of this is built around the simple idea that real friendships happen when you actually meet in person. I understand the sentiment - but this would make it useless for my closest friends - we live in different cities and countries now - and it would take years to fill in the social graph. We would all have to travel and meet everyone else. I suppose this is alleviated by the talk to a friend of a friend feature…

Seen from another angle: this encourages you to make new friends locally.

And yes, also one more excuse to visit faraway friends.

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Post by Bengalilol »

jdyer9 wrote: post #355
SamBam wrote: post #250

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I think the tapping phones feature -- for initial friend creation, not upkeep -- is THE killer feature of the app. Do I want my teens on any social media apps? No. Would I let them be on Facebook of 2006, when you were just connected to your friends and family, and not influencers and "the algorithm?" Sure! That and early Instagram were great ways to keep up with real-life friends. If you made this as easy and pleasa…

My thoughts as well, I love this! Easy to do, easy to implement but hard to bypass. Also it tells me something about the network that is not vying for a slice of the attention economy and isn't going to do everything it can to keep me on the site.

Why "hard to bypass" would be a sufficient thing? It depends on the technology used to connect the two phones. Bypassing this process can range from "easy" to "quite complicated", but it remains possible. Once the security is compromised, the entire network loses its core value since a single interaction is enough to establish a permanent connection.

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Post by oefrha »

ca98am79 wrote: post #475
jona-f wrote: post #459

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Curious what you’d consider a better model for naming/ownership on the internet.

You don’t need to propose a better model of the world to despise the dirtbags profiting from legal but icky shit in this world.
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