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Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by PenguinCoder »

SamBam wrote: post #9

I don't really understand the purpose. If I'm writing these thoughts for myself, why would I want to post them? If I'm writing these thoughts to engage with an audience or wider community, why wouldn't I want them to be able to reply?

For my writing it's both really. I write so that I can better present my ideas and thoughts Ina coherent manner that make sense to other people; not just myself. At the same time I am not writing FOR anyone else. I don't want feedback or commentary. I write to help my own thought process, making sure I understand the topic well enough that I could explain to someone else. I don't write for audience engagement, or for someone else. But I do try and write what someone without my knowledge or expertise can understand. I write for peers and practice.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by conductr »

SamBam wrote: post #9

I don't really understand the purpose. If I'm writing these thoughts for myself, why would I want to post them? If I'm writing these thoughts to engage with an audience or wider community, why wouldn't I want them to be able to reply?

For the likes/upvotes or whatever they do

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

SamBam wrote: post #9

I don't really understand the purpose. If I'm writing these thoughts for myself, why would I want to post them? If I'm writing these thoughts to engage with an audience or wider community, why wouldn't I want them to be able to reply?

Hey Sam! I'm Louis, the guy who built Nicheless. The purpose of the platform is simple – it's a place to improve your thoughts through writing.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/why-i-built-this

Also, people can like and reply to your posts, but both those are private. Only you'll know how many likes a post has, and all replies will go directly to your DMs instead of a comment section. This is so that it helps reduce uneccessary trolling and status games among people, with the goal of making it easier for people to write for the sake of thinking, and not to impress their audiences which may or may not exist.

Let me know if you have any questions. Happy that you took the time to try it out.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did.

Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls.

I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.

Happy to answer any questions you may have, and grateful that you took the time to try it out.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

PenguinCoder wrote: post #11
SamBam wrote: post #9

I don't really understand the purpose. If I'm writing these thoughts for myself, why would I want to post them? If I'm writing these thoughts to engage with an audience or wider community, why wouldn't I want them to be able to reply?

For my writing it's both really. I write so that I can better present my ideas and thoughts Ina coherent manner that make sense to other people; not just myself. At the same time I am not writing FOR anyone else. I don't want feedback or commentary. I write to help my own thought process, making sure I understand the topic well enough that I could explain to someone else. I don't write for audience engagement, or for…

I love this. It's exactly the kind of use case I had in mind while building Nicheless. Happy that it resonates!

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by welanes »

Nice job. No RSS though as far as I can tell.

For something slightly less minimal but very nice to use, I stumbled across this the other day: https://blogstatic.io/

Feels likes - after being crowded out by FB and Twitter (and the death of Google Reader) - blogs are making a comeback.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by xmonkee »

louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

I love it. Just made my first post. Is there a way to discover other writers?

Edit: jk, just found the "discover" section

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by oefrha »

troutwine wrote: post #3

> No trolls. While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole conversation and repost to some other platform if I want external validation.

I have a friend with millions of followers on social media. She gets all kinds of disgusting private messages all the time. The worst trolls aren’t publicly commenting (or at least aren’t solely publicly commenting), they message you directly as long as you leave an avenue open.
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