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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by rsolva »

AbuAssar wrote: post #12
exitnode wrote: post #4

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

I'm curios why you are avoiding social media?

I do NOT consider the Fediverse and the myriads of implementations of it to be social media, but rather a social web. More like websites with the abilities to communicate and interact in different and interesting ways.

Social media is dead, and has been for a while. Many use it still, but it is not primarily social. The social part was mainly a ploy to get peoples attention and then badly abusing it in ever more creative and sinister ways.

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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by rsolva »

exitnode wrote: post #4

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

I do NOT consider the Fediverse and the myriads of implementations of it to be social media, but rather a social web. More like websites with the abilities to communicate and interact in different and interesting ways.

Social media is dead, and has been for a while. Many use it still, but it is not primarily social. The social part was mainly a ploy to get peoples attention and then badly abusing it in ever more creative and sinister ways.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by adrithmetiqa »

ffsm8 wrote: post #33
kpopendurer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In general, it's better not to force an action onto users. You might prefer things opening in a new tab, but you always have that option. If it's forced on users, it is frustrating for those who would prefer that not to happen.

And yet we're here, discussing how a developer should change their own application because their preference is wrong If you don't like it, adjust it for yourself with an extension or script.

Exactly. This is a design choice and there’s no right or wrong here.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by TopHatHipster »

viermalbe wrote: post #9
stakhanov wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious: What software is driving this? Is it a re-skin of the lobste.rs or HN open source software, or is it its own thing? EDIT: ...just realized that's in the FAQ. > Is it open source? > Not yet. Maybe someday.

It runs on Go + sqlite on a Hetzner machine, built from scratch, not a re-skin.

What type of Hetzner box are you running this on?

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by jaapz »

adrithmetiqa wrote: post #43
ffsm8 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet we're here, discussing how a developer should change their own application because their preference is wrong If you don't like it, adjust it for yourself with an extension or script.

Exactly. This is a design choice and there’s no right or wrong here.

the difference is that with tab-open default, there is no way for me to open the link in this window

with this-window default (or actually, the browser-default-default), I can middle click and it'll open in a new tab regardless

pretty funny to have this discussion though, takes me back to the HTML4 and XHTML days

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by latexr »

pchm wrote: post #38

I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985

> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring

One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of their manipulative features. And HN is so inundated with AI submissions that having yet another Show HN about it is uninteresting to many.

Would you visit HN if it were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? A lot of people wouldn’t. We’re a social species, there is value in human curation—especially when driven by the community—that’s inherently lacking from algorithmic curation (AI or otherwise).

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by hk__2 »

adrithmetiqa wrote: post #43
ffsm8 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet we're here, discussing how a developer should change their own application because their preference is wrong If you don't like it, adjust it for yourself with an extension or script.

Exactly. This is a design choice and there’s no right or wrong here.

Yes there is a right and wrong. The default browser behavior is the design that every user expects, so unless there is a very strong argument for a different way, this is the _right_ design.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by pchm »

latexr wrote: post #47
pchm wrote: post #38

I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985

> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of their manipulative features. And HN is so inundated with AI submissions that having yet another Show HN about it is uninteresting to many. Would you visit HN if it were just a link aggreg…

That's true, provided that all activity (comments, voting) here is still coming from actual humans. That's no longer the case for community websites, I'm afraid.

It's an experiment made for the web of 2026, where you can no longer tell if the users are humans or bots.

If nobody's interested in that idea, I accept that.

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