Minus

Post by echion » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #102

andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…

Beauty is best served with a tinge of melancholy.

> Man was made for Joy & Woe

> And when this we rightly know

> Thro the World we safely go

> Joy & Woe are woven fine

> A Clothing for the soul divine

> Under every grief & pine

> Runs a joy with silken twine

Blake

Post by WorldMaker » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

abeppu wrote: post #97

simias wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like like the idea of a "high latency" social network, effectively bringing back the feeling of old snail mail (but more public). 2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to g…

I picked 2 weeks because I wanted to discourage talking about the news. Or responding/reacting to something dumb a public figure did or said.

2 weeks would match up with certain snail mail geography especially around the horse/carriage era.

It might be fun/interesting to try to base the latency upon simulated geography: whether the entirely fictional geometry of something like classic GeoCities where you get assigned a random address in a digital "neighborhood" somewhere when you sign up, or use real world geography and filter it through ancient routing restrictions like "how long would it take in the post by horse/carriage".

A benefit to a dynamic latency such as simulated geography would be that it would make it even tougher to sync together how posts would be arriving from multiple users (unless you were targeting a specific user).

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