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> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.
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Yep, you could have an options menu (like at hcker.news) and have the ability to switch the summaries off or even extend them? Could also make them blacker and larger? Also, looks like ArticlesBase stopped in 2024 - maybe offer a way for users to upload articles, summarize them and then people can micropay to read? Maybe just charge for older articles? Can also charge for extra long articles? Put everything into an L…
I’ve been noodling on an idea sort of similar, which is to have a system where if you register for an account and very your site (with a technical mechanism in place to enforce that), you get a slight boost in the ranking algorithm for your content. Then, if you pay a small monthly fee, you get an additional boost in rankings, as well as some amount of (anonymized appropriately) analytics about your content performan…
Regarding Wordpress, I've found it still lacks a decent search plugin. Could you make one? Charge for it, accept outside pings, take in full feeds and provide a search box in return for subsequent display on individual sites.
Also, pitch your aggregator as well as something that'll "pull in more engaged readers into your site." Perhaps the search box could be "search this site only" / "search all engineered blogs."
You could also make the plugin free, but charge for accepting more than 10(?) pings per month. If you create a specialized LLM, you could also offer some type of shared ownership too to encourage cooperation.
Crowdsourcing content is another interesting area to watch where writers propose an article and it gets funded beforehand. Those articles could end up being open-source ideas with actionable information. Having built up a reputation and readership would make successful crowdfunding more likely.
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From memory, there was a long tail of blogs like that way back when, but a core of solid, interesting content. I have an expectation that an aggregator would bubble the interesting stuff up, and the self-referential stuff down. But maybe this is just content the audience finds interesting.
There is still solid and interesting content, it’s just that the material is so diverse that attention is spread thinly. Meanwhile, blogging is the one thing bloggers definitely have in common, so the attention is more concentrated. It’s a failing of aggregators that they optimize for attention concentration rather than interestingness. But is there even such a thing, objectively?
With sufficiently rich data, I think they're equivalent.
I think collaborative filtering works much better once you have a critical mass of users/data - enough that taste clusters emerge. Otherwise it just defaults to whatever's globally popular. Google Reader managed it quite well. Librarything is fantastic at it (far better than Amazon).
I wrote a simple recommendation engine for musical taste in the early 2k's (pre-last.fm), but it had very little data available to it. The result? It recommended Radiohead to everyone. (Looking back, this was my first exposure to The Bitter Lesson).
I’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago. It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life. Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.
> it’s so diverse and humane Opened the page, first entry: „white supremacist dogwhistle“ One can’t make this much diversity and humaneness up. Yes, their frontpage overall seems normal and you probably meant well, but that this is their first entry is just hilarious.
A second corollary: When a social site's top content stops being about the internet, then it is probably going to be even more successful.
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There aren't many business-y people with public blogs that aren't just PR outlets for, if not outright hosted by, their business. They do exist but it's a very quantity-limiting criteria, as (unlike the general population) success in business tends to be accompanied by wariness of speaking openly in publicly-indexed venues such as blogs. No shame in having a picky preference! But worth keeping in mind. (ps. You might…
You're right. Had a look at Scope of Work, looks really cool but I'm not into any hardware whatsoever unfortunately. Appreciate the suggestion though!
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You're right. Had a look at Scope of Work, looks really cool but I'm not into any hardware whatsoever unfortunately. Appreciate the suggestion though!
Rands slack? It’s really, really not my cup of tea but if you’re dead set on a high concentration of MBA and can tolerate what I assume is a lot of support for AI, it’s probably the one community I know of that’s open to walk-ups.
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Consolidating your online activity to a single ID is a bug. 1. It enables correlation, tracking, and stalking across sites. 2. It makes people vulnerable to being locked out of that single-ID provider. 3. It makes people vulnerable across multiple services to a compromise of that single-ID provider. 4. It risks alleged abuse at any one service relying on the single-ID provider causing problems with other services, or…
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I’ve been noodling on an idea sort of similar, which is to have a system where if you register for an account and very your site (with a technical mechanism in place to enforce that), you get a slight boost in the ranking algorithm for your content. Then, if you pay a small monthly fee, you get an additional boost in rankings, as well as some amount of (anonymized appropriately) analytics about your content performan…
Yep. Verifying is good practice. Regarding Wordpress, I've found it still lacks a decent search plugin. Could you make one? Charge for it, accept outside pings, take in full feeds and provide a search box in return for subsequent display on individual sites. Also, pitch your aggregator as well as something that'll "pull in more engaged readers into your site." Perhaps the search box could be "search this site only" /…
Some other ideas I've thought about:
- Pay to boost a specific article for a period of time (with appropriate UI changes so people know it's a boosted article)
- A job board that puts roles in the article rankings (ideally also semantically matched to users based on their profile/topics they follow). a reverse job board could work too, where people can indicate the types of roles they're open to
- An Offers board, for people to pay to advertise their product / startup with a specialized deal available to readers of the site (could also be more of an affiliate system to reduce friction of getting Offers submitted by taking a commission on payments collected using the offer code).
Overall there's a bunch of directions this could go, I just need to start promoting the site itself to get traffic up and consistent.