I'm a little confused, when I click "or just read" it asks me to create a blog. Is there any way to read the content without creating a blog?
Well, it's probably vibecoded, so who knows what it even does?
Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read
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#12Looks cool! After signing up, “today’s stranger” was written is Arabic, so I wasn’t able to read it.
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#13It seems unusually tone deaf to call it a place for writers, and then let AI write the blurb.
Fair point. English isn't my first language and Waldi grew up Persian-first and I leaned on AI to draft the English readme. I will rewrite it soon (and make it shorter too). the Persian is all me. the English version deserves it too.
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#14I'm a little confused, when I click "or just read" it asks me to create a blog. Is there any way to read the content without creating a blog?
I had the same meh reaction. Why put content behind a wall if you're a content distributor platform?
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#15At least one interesting concept: > Your first hundred readers are guaranteed. When you publish, your post is quietly shown to a hundred readers. No followers required, no algorithm to please. Good writing finds its people here. HN does something similar (although without concrete "at least X viewers"), new comments get some seconds/minutes on the top of the comments, before they slowly "fall down", similar idea I th…
Hi, I fixed the issue you reported. The signup no longer requires a blog description and name. For now only writing access require an invitation, just to keep the stranger box posts at a minimum quality level. The main benefit of creating an account on Waldi is that you can follow blogs and receive one random stranger post every morning.
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#16I'm a little confused, when I click "or just read" it asks me to create a blog. Is there any way to read the content without creating a blog?
I had the same meh reaction. Why put content behind a wall if you're a content distributor platform?
It's not a wall. The blogs have their own subdomain or custom domain and they are public. They are findable by search, the foundation of Internet discovery. But the account creation is for getting random stranger posts every morning to find blogs that you didn't know existed.
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#17I guess from the title I expected "human written" to be a part of it, though now that I look at it nothing actually guarantees that. The Claudese of the README turned me off on the idea. I like reading something written by people who excel in and relish the craft. Having the README dripping with AI slop sounding words and phrases makes me less confident in the idea that this will be a place that can capture that.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same meh reaction. Why put content behind a wall if you're a content distributor platform?
It's not a wall. The blogs have their own subdomain or custom domain and they are public. They are findable by search, the foundation of Internet discovery. But the account creation is for getting random stranger posts every morning to find blogs that you didn't know existed.
It would help a heap to show some blogposts and on the landing page so people would know what they will get when you ask for account even for the readers.
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#19I love the products with some level of randomness inside - I will follow yours.
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#20Is this based on ATproto ? I personnaly see new silos as something less interesting than ATProto apps.
I don't think so. If you self-host, you're on your own island and anything you write isn't seen unless you attract people to your domain.
Seems like a missed opportunity.