> What are your thoughts?
A question.
What problem(s) / do you want to see solved or what needs do you want to address with this?
(asking as someone who mostly never used social networks outside HN)
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would argue that HN is a collective not a social network.
You're being social right now, on Hacker News.
HN is social media, but it's not a social network. A network puts the emphasis on individual nodes (users) and the connections between them (following/friendship).
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#23I am sure it will work in browser with javascript disabled.
Not quite a social network but a new version of the web where documents are just markdown or something very similar and the browser is an unglorified document reader with no JavaScript has been on my mind for a while.
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#24make a repo with a readme,
put your ideas in it and invite people to comment
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#26No thank you. I’m okay with not having another social media product.
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#27I think what would really be great is a social media site that doesn't offer direct image or video hosting. A bit like how reddit used to be. You just have link aggregation, voting, and comments. That's it. Maybe in a nice, clean, minimal UI as well. This would lend itself to tech folk I think. If only it existed.
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#28> I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points.
And what is this concept? Hidden in this question is a strong undercurrent of "I'm an ideas person with a world changing idea. I can't share it because I believe that it's valuable. I just need engineers".
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#29Federated Mastodon.
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#30FOAF it up!