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Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by Schiendelman »

bix6 wrote: post #50
Schiendelman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on a game that helps with this. You leave your little bunker in a post-apocalyptic world and find the land around you contaminated. You walk, run, any workout, to claim territory around you, and gain energy you can use to clean up. You start building greenhouses to grow food and start rebuilding the ecosystem. It's all on the real world map underneath you, and all the interactions between people in the ga…

Link if I want to stay updated? Sounds cool

Sure! I'm not quite ready to testflight. I'll reply to your comment when I've got a page up. :)

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by vlian2088 »

xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

mom&pop social media is the old thing, and like other mom&pop things that got steamrolled by their equivalents of Walmart, it is highly unlikely to ever return.

95% of people choose utility and convenience over ideological preferences, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I too miss the old Internet sometimes, sure, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I'd much rather deal with anonymous strangers or LLMs than ye olde phpbbs with their anal moderation, resident schizos, and weird cliques.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

drooby wrote: post #56

Hmm idk, this looks a bit more like serendipity for vitriolic trolls

Well, as I said before. This is usually much calmer. Try coming back some time later, after the Hn spike.

or explore other people's websites that are using Townsquare. Check them out here https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/map

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by charcircuit »

xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

That already exists. It's called social media and people promote real life events there.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by shimman »

vlian2088 wrote: post #52
xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

mom&pop social media is the old thing, and like other mom&pop things that got steamrolled by their equivalents of Walmart, it is highly unlikely to ever return. 95% of people choose utility and convenience over ideological preferences, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I too miss the old Internet sometimes, sure, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I'd much rather deal with anonymous strangers or LLMs than ye old…

I don't like this argument because it assumes that money should rightfully dictate everything in our lives. Also disagree that there is a "choice" when it comes to consumer spending, as if there are any public options for consumer spending in a neoliberal economy.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by trollbridge »

cauenapier wrote: post #57
drooby wrote: post #56

Hmm idk, this looks a bit more like serendipity for vitriolic trolls

Well, as I said before. This is usually much calmer. Try coming back some time later, after the Hn spike. or explore other people's websites that are using Townsquare. Check them out here https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/map

The last time it was dead, maybe 1 or 2 people wandered in and then went to Zzz.

Today it's got tons of people but a lack of moderation. I'm not really sure how you have a meaningful conversation either (maybe it's just because too many people are on there).

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