I’m currently building this for TV shows. Our idea is that the social aspect should be limited to your real life friends and family only, because that’s where the really magical discovery happens. We’ve got a small number of very dedicated users who all know each other in real life, and they use the app as an adjunct to their real life conversations. We’ve finally got it in the App Store, so seeing if we can scale it over the next few months should be fun!
Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
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How does Tiktok do it? Edit: I meant how does Tiktok help person above meet people locally?
By giving people what they want. A lot of this emergent behavior falls out of doing good search science. By optimizing other metrics YouTube etc are giving people less of what they want and more of what YouTube wants. YouTube would be useless if I couldn’t ban so many channels from my recommended feeds. At the early stages of TikTok there was some controversy that diverse, disabled, marginalized etc people were being…
Yeah. It’s highly addictive. I have screentime for “fun apps” set to 30 mins now because it will suck you in for hours if you’re not careful.
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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,…
It's very similar to how the best way to become unhappy is to try to be happy. Happiness is a side-effect of living a well balanced life. The harder you try to be happy, the more you displace the things that make you happy. It only comes when you aren't chasing it, but doing the things you find interesting and rewarding instead.
Lengthy romantic relationship dry spells aren't "the problem", but rather typically a symptom of other issues, and often issues that are exacerbated by putting sex and relationships on a pedestal.
The best thing you can do in order to find a romantic relationship is to just be a well functioning person that has their shit together. Have friends, have interests, get out of the apartment, do stuff with your life. Incel brainrot never got anyone laid.
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#164"Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Reddit has worked around their lack of it to some degree with location-based subreddits like r/AtlFilmmakers. But subreddits are high maintenance, and they isolate content. Plus, the naming conventions aren't standard. Maybe there's r/AtlFilmmakers for filmmakers in Atlanta, but another subreddit for m…
Strava has a feature called Flyby that allows you to find out other Strava users who you ran past (flew by) on your activity. With a single click you could get the other user's entire route, likely including their home (start/finish).
After some backlash about safety/privacy, it was disabled on everyone's account and required people to manually opt-in:
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/10/strava-flyby-feature.htm...
Very few people opted back in so the feature became useless.
Most people still have the setting that matches them with people who have run with them on a group run (same exact route at the same time).
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Anybody aware of what’s happening in Africa between France, Russia and Wagner
Is it some kind of secret bunch of people who know this?
The secret bunch who pay attention to Africa. It's not exactly shouted from the rooftops in western countries as public opinion is not quite as favorable towards colonialism and patronage as they were 100+ years ago.
Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
#166"Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Reddit has worked around their lack of it to some degree with location-based subreddits like r/AtlFilmmakers. But subreddits are high maintenance, and they isolate content. Plus, the naming conventions aren't standard. Maybe there's r/AtlFilmmakers for filmmakers in Atlanta, but another subreddit for m…
Strava has a feature called Flyby that allows you to find out other Strava users who you ran past (flew by) on your activity. With a single click you could get the other user's entire route, likely including their home (start/finish). After some backlash about safety/privacy, it was disabled on everyone's account and required people to manually opt-in: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/10/strava-flyby-feature.htm... V…
Wasn't it also Strava or a similar app that revealed military bases by the staff on patrol having the app on?
I mean given sattelite imagery is a thing I doubt army bases are secret, but that was still a bit of a whoopsie, on both the personnel's part and the app's.
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The point that is being made is that you do new things you haven’t done before. Explore! For example, If you are a gym rat in the morning you can still do that yourself without the other person and then later in the day do the new things you never done before. The other person benefits as well. You don’t always have to be glued to the hip of the other.
So you argue that you should both enjoy exploring new things together in common. No one is arguing that you should spend every minute with your partner, but if you want to spend time together, you should have an activity that you both enjoy (which might be exploring new things!), otherwise the relationship will be hard.
on the contrary, most relationships got started only because both partners enjoy exploring each other’s bodies. any other activities they might have in common is some afterthought that is tacked on after the relationship acquired a stable footing. i still don’t have any activity in common with my wife, and we’ve spent 2 decades & change…
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Musk has a selective view of what free speech means. His view of free speech is different to the majority of people reading that article, seems reasonable to put quotes around it.
Is it? I always thought the uttermost definition of "Free speech" is that you have the right to have a stupid, ugly or wrong opinion? And as long as you don't violate any ToS (e.g. Hackernews, as a private enterprise or organization) or laws (kill XYZ type of people) you are within the rights of "free speech".
Musk's version of "free speech" should be in quotations. Twitter was banning accounts, even Paul Graham's, for saying "This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.”
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#169Sharing a common interest is the best way to meet lots of new people. It creates low stakes interaction opportunities and removes the creep factor (if you are at a meetup for fans of model trains along with like a dozen other people, it’s not weird that you are talking to some of them). Better than any app, go get a hobby in person and get out there to meet people who are into it. Chances are you present yourself way…
This is why clubs exist and have for centuries. Country clubs, rotary club, computer club, Masonic, etc. There’s a ton of them but you don’t see younger people joining them as much today.
> There’s a ton of them but you don’t see younger people joining them as much today.
That's because they're primarily filled with old people, with "old" interests. Short of a coordinated visit, you'll always be in the minority. Heck, I'm in the minority, and I'm in my 40's the few times I accept an invitation to go to one of these places.
There's also the occasional left-over haughtiness about the value of being let into the club. Left over from when they were exceptionally popular. This can push people away too.
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If you think dating apps skew male…
Off topic: What setup did you use to make this comment so that you used the … character instead of three . characters?
Windows: Alt+0133 - numbers typed with the number pad. The character map app on Windows can help find all of these codes for different glyphs.