It turns out being connected with good friends/family is a lot more enjoyable than being connected with every random person you had a university course with once. Facebook is going to be your rolodex (A "facebook" even! good name for it) and then there's going to be a heavily segmented private social network for your friends / families to connect and share photos. Figuring out how to make that happen with limited / m…
I set up my personal rolodex as an alternative to Facebook. It's called Monica, and can be self-hosted: https://www.monicahq.com/
>For me, at least, group chats aren’t the new AIM. They’re the new Facebook. [...] Facebook was a place for this kind of purposeless sociality before it was a place for repeatedly blocking and reporting your step-cousin.
I'm glad to see this article articulate this. If you were thinking about something political, say Climate Change, and posted that, then you'd suddenly find yourself arguing basic facts with someone who dropped out of your highschool that you never got around to defriending.
Repeat post-argue-block until you can't muster the energy, and start posting trivial nothing like pictures of what food you are eating like everyone else - wanting social interaction but repeatedly slapped like a pavlovian dog until you don't know if it's even possible to have a real conversation online anymore.
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
Slack is IRC for millennials. Just reinventing the world.
It turns out being connected with good friends/family is a lot more enjoyable than being connected with every random person you had a university course with once. Facebook is going to be your rolodex (A "facebook" even! good name for it) and then there's going to be a heavily segmented private social network for your friends / families to connect and share photos. Figuring out how to make that happen with limited / m…
I started using groupme in 2014 in college and it's the de facto standard for group chats now, at least where I went to school (45k undergrads). The barrier to create a new groupchat is low and it pulls people from your contacts, so it was easy to set one up for a class, your roommates, your dorm, your floor, your fraternity, your pledge class, your fraternity and a sorority, your extra curriculars and intramurals, your friends from highschool, the people you work with, and an assortment of niche interests with people from those groups (I have one for xbox live, game of thrones, sports talk, people who are in town, people who aren't in town, people who want to play pickup sports, making a groupme for a 1 off event planning, etc). It's a great platform and it's already spread like wildfire among my peers, at least.
It turns out being connected with good friends/family is a lot more enjoyable than being connected with every random person you had a university course with once. Facebook is going to be your rolodex (A "facebook" even! good name for it) and then there's going to be a heavily segmented private social network for your friends / families to connect and share photos. Figuring out how to make that happen with limited / m…
I set up my personal rolodex as an alternative to Facebook. It's called Monica, and can be self-hosted: https://www.monicahq.com/
How do you get people to update their info without your intervention?
For sure, it piggybacks off the mobile device you connect with. It's a really solid, seamless, and easy way of starting a desktop client. I wish Telegram would adapt it as well but the current way it handles isn't terrible (1 time code).
I think telegram should def add it as another way. But as a more power user of Telegram and Whatsapp I would def prefer native sleek clients for both. Whatsapp issues go beyond that like not being able to log into a tablet. But none of that goes away from the point of both being intuitive.
About as intuitive as comic chat - seems you need a mobile and phone number to get going with Whatsapp.
No idea why you're being downvoted (my hunch is that HN is extremely biased towards IRC and XMPP). Discord is the lifeblood of a lot of gaming communities and a growing number of IT communities.
He's likely being downvoted because he's discussing that he's happy with an open protocol being deprecated in favor of a centralized service that is the opposite, logging all of your private messages, forcing you to use their own client, etc. Granted, they increased usability significantly by doing this, but it comes at a large cost for people that value freedom and privacy.
"people that value freedom and privacy"
Come on man, it's so hard to have conversations when people say shit like this...