Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

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Post by kocial » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

nicbou wrote: post #47

Kindness as the default. If it wouldn't fly in a face-to-face conversation, it does not fly on the network. One thing that keeps HN pleasant is dang's enforcement of good conduct.

Maintaining/Asking for good conduct among educated people

vs

A crowded network of a mix of educated, spammy keyboard warriors is different.

On HN, we mostly have educated people, so with good conduct rules, they all behave well.

On social networks, you see many keyboard warriors and spammy people, where educated people get overshadowed.

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

#52

Post by vednig » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

kocial wrote: post #10

vednig wrote: post #7

no ai bots no social engineering freedom to say whatever you want however you want

- No AI bots; agreed - No social engineering; curious what this means here - you mean no social influencing on any topic? - For freedom, the world always comes down to the jurisdiction and law of your country. If you violate the law, the platform needs to cut .

Freedom as in Free Speech, if you can speak it you can post it. Any form of targetting over the content posted by Government or Private Entities regardless of motive should be condoned. Thus making it an integral part of conservation of democracies where it exists and better tool for voicing concerns where there isn't democracies.

And by Social Engineering, what I meant was no base algorithm implemention for suggestions, just if you follow a topic you'll be able to see all it's post on selection of posts based on what's liked better by others or those who follow you or those who whom you follow. Or a feed spiraled into making you spend time on platform, it should be like Newspaper/Event + Community Responses(excluding bots).

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

#53

Post by greenregiment » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #8

kocial wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, what I understand is that you mean - no selling of your content, no third-party SDK, and no sharing of your data. What does the other thing include in privacy?

No dark patterns hiding new or changed settings. And any new settings should ALWAYS default to what the average user would likely choose, not what the marketing department cooked up this week and "absolutely must be enabled by default!!!11~"

Slater is a miserable loser with 0 life accomplishments

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

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Post by yamilg » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

allow me to pay, no more than $2.99/month. don't ever sell my data. don't act "smart" about what I may want to see. allow me to follow and only see content from profiles i follow. if you want content, allow some kind of monetization. something like a revenue share for people who actually invest in creating relevant content for the rest of the group. or a simple tipping system.

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

#55

Post by JaviLopezG » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

Almost all the descriptions have a simple answer: Mastodon :)

However, I think we should come back to IRC it gave us so beautiful moments.

Re: Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

#56

Post by boredyeti » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 9:50 AM UTC

I've built Cosmos47, which is a public social feed that shows all posts chronologically and there are no likes or upvotes. It's one single feed that appears the same to all users, from all over the world. No algorithm or ranking people by popularity.

All posts are analyzed with AI when posted and each post gets tagged with its language, topics, tone, format, length, location, and other characteristics. Then, readers can then filter the feed themselves (if they wish) to see only specific languages, only posts from people they follow, posts related to specific topics, etc. The idea is that distribution comes from relevance rather than popularity.

It’s still an early experiment. Most of the content currently on the platform is actually AI slop test content that I created to test multilingual feeds, filtering, moderation, embeds, search and indexing.

https://cosmos47.com