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Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?

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Post by notforgot »

anotheryou wrote: post #20
notforgot wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I went ahead and implemented part of (2): letting the user who posts to rate. I'll work on ranking posts by this score.

oh wow :) you are quick. Can I contact you by other means? Email or some instant messaging? I can sent you an invite to my little alpha. People of course might abuse the rating, so the question is if one should normalize or at least fine-tune by having rating up and down in your own feed. And if you sort just by rating, without decay, a new user sees ooold posts at the top (because he has not dismissed any by going t…

Good thoughts. I'll add it on my todo list. You can contact me on foolow.

Won't it get annoying if new posts of lesser ranking keep showing up first?

Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?

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Post by anotheryou »

notforgot wrote: post #21
anotheryou wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh wow :) you are quick. Can I contact you by other means? Email or some instant messaging? I can sent you an invite to my little alpha. People of course might abuse the rating, so the question is if one should normalize or at least fine-tune by having rating up and down in your own feed. And if you sort just by rating, without decay, a new user sees ooold posts at the top (because he has not dismissed any by going t…

Good thoughts. I'll add it on my todo list. You can contact me on foolow. Won't it get annoying if new posts of lesser ranking keep showing up first?

Other way arround: you most important first of course.

Can I PM on foolow?

Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?

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Post by anotheryou »

notforgot wrote: post #21
anotheryou wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh wow :) you are quick. Can I contact you by other means? Email or some instant messaging? I can sent you an invite to my little alpha. People of course might abuse the rating, so the question is if one should normalize or at least fine-tune by having rating up and down in your own feed. And if you sort just by rating, without decay, a new user sees ooold posts at the top (because he has not dismissed any by going t…

Good thoughts. I'll add it on my todo list. You can contact me on foolow. Won't it get annoying if new posts of lesser ranking keep showing up first?

did you just put "send PMs" on the todo? haha. I just want to sent you an invite in private, can we find a channel for that :) ?

And if you're up for it, let's chat a bit or skype.

Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?

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Post by tomashertus »

lj3 wrote: post #15
tomashertus wrote: post #3

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yeah I've heard about it, but there are not yet fully operated. Anyway I'm like on like 110k spot in the queue, so it will take some time till I get there. Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? For example, one of the biggest problems on Twitter is lack of "negative keywords" filter. I like to follow people, but I can't control what they tweet about and I do…

> Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specific negative keyword filters, though. If you want to filter the grammies, for example, it takes effect site-wide. There are a lot of missing features because Gab is still young, but it has…

That sounds really interesting. Is there a way how to help them maybe? I would be interested to know more about the app

Re: Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter?

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Post by anotheryou »

notforgot wrote: post #17
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #12

I just don't see the point of Twitter, what would be the point of a replacement? Honestly, how has the sharing of 140 char thoughts changed the world? If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product of some kind? How successful is that? I understand there was a spring uprising of free speech in some places that haven't had much of that. Did that really change things for the better lo…

The point doesn't need to be to amass followers. It can be to share knowledge and spread news. There could be a more useful variation in this medium than today's Twitter. Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.

any means of contacting you in private? (asked on another comment, but I guess it got lost, HNs comments are messy :)
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