Just give people full control, and the protocol will be successful. Look at e-mail for an example.
Of course, this doesn't mean that it can be monetized easily.
Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you think dating apps skew male…
All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)
> All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated.
Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun".
> Discord especially is such a sausage fest.
Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them?
> Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)
Some were (and are), some weren't (and aren't).
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Funny this got mentioned as France just successfully got that very feature removed from Telegram by arresting the founder and citing that feature as the one being used most for abuse. Bunch of sources about that here: https://ground.news/article/telegram-to-start-moderating-pri...
That might have been cited as the reason, but I think we all know the real reason is that France is fighting against Russian troops in their former African colonies, and Russian troops mainly use Telegram for their communications.
Who are those "we" you're talking about?
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
That might have been cited as the reason, but I think we all know the real reason is that France is fighting against Russian troops in their former African colonies, and Russian troops mainly use Telegram for their communications.
Who are those "we" you're talking about?
Anybody aware of what’s happening in Africa between France, Russia and Wagner
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#155“Hobby apps” are social networks. Just because some social networks try for mass appeal with generic features like microblogs and photos doesn’t mean that other social networks with very specific features like GPS logging of bike rides are not.
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#156Anecdotally run clubs are the dance halls of today (i.e. go to meet women)
I'm wonder what the appeal is of meeting with strangers for the purpose of running.
You start out as strangers but I can say, after attending my local parkrun for a few times I got to know the other runners. Often it's half an hour of chatting at a nice tempo. Though I didn't meet any of them anywhere else, which isn't my intention anyways and I barely ever meet up with people.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed 100%. The issue is that a long term relationship (and sex) is often considered creepy to pursue in venues not designated for that.
The solution is to not pursue sex or relationships, but to simply have enough of a social life that it happens anyway. That completely gets rid of the leisure suit larry energy that going out hunting for a partner inevitably gives you.
> The solution is to not pursue sex or relationships, but to simply have enough of a social life that it happens anyway.
One thing I find odd about having problems finding partners/establishing relationships, it's that for every other psychological problem, say, addictions, depression, et cetera, one thing people always says to be of utmost importance is to acknowledge the problem itself. To not pretend it's nothing, or that it's something else. With relationship-making there's a complete reversal on that. Default advice it's to forget it and delude yourself pretending you're trying just to do some hobbies.
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TikTok is the only app I’ve encountered that gets this right. I’ve made connections with people from my town and places just outside where I live. I’d love to see more apps do what TikTok does.
How does Tiktok do it? Edit: I meant how does Tiktok help person above meet people locally?
It just adds the additional dimension of user location (where a user has tagged their post with their location, a lot of people just tag no location or Big Butt Mountain). So if you’ve taken an interest in chess, it will show you popular chess videos, but also throw chess videos in from people close by.
On other apps like FB, it does show location-based content, but nothing I’m ever interested in (it doesn’t seem to understand interests+location, only interests or location). So like sure, it has posts from my neighbor, but it will be about lawn care or something else I’m not interested in.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
>At the early stages of TikTok there was some controversy that diverse, disabled, marginalized etc people were being underrepresented compared to other platforms and we now see how that turned out. The controversy was that they were being actively suppressed as a moderation decision. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
There is more than one way to give people what they want, and in my haste I clumsily muddled two of them. All the platforms are being moderated heavily with thumbs on the scales to advantage one group over another. My personal preference would be to have no thumbs on the scales. Additionally I hate TikTok for the intentional addictive mechanism that requires an attention 'ante' to find out if a video is interesting b…
FWIW, you can fast forward or jump to any point in a TikTok video - just start dragging on the bottom of the screen and a scrubber will appear. Or tap to pause and a playback bar will dispay.
In practice, you are right that there is an attention ante; most videos are short enough to sit through them to see the payoff without making the effort to scrub.