Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks? • Hacker News Board

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by ta1243 » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 9:16 PM UTC

Beijinger wrote: post #260

consteval wrote: post #257

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> stupid, ugly or wrong opinion You can only have a stupid, ugly or wrong opinion so long as Musk shares it. Luckily Musk is uniquely dumb, so that covers most awful takes you can have, perhaps giving the perception of free speech.

That is his right. It is his company. You don't have the right to free speech on another man's property. You have the right to be an antisemite. But just please not in my house, I may ask you to leave.

So "free speech" is "speech Musk is happy to have"

That's fine, and is why "free speech" is in quotes

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by isaacdaoust » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 10:59 PM UTC

Futurebot wrote: post #258

isaacdaoust wrote: post #195

Notably absent hobby in the article is music. I'm currently working on a website that will function as a "hobby app" for digital music/album collection. https://discollect.app my public profile: https://discollect.app/profile/clo0oz2hw0005fv02qbxn866c

Cool idea. Are you planning to add profile photo, description, and location support like Letterboxd has? Maybe messaging? Also, is there a way to find who else has listened to what I've listened to?

I'm definitely open to adding profile photos. So far I've mostly been developing based on what I personally want because I do enjoy using the service myself. Description has been on the backlog for a while. For location: you can currently set a flag to show up on your profile in your settings, but I agree it would make sense to expand it to a full location. Messaging will definitely be coming.

Right now the only way to see if you have common discs with someone else is to directly visit their profile and a "Discs In Common" section will show up. But that's sort of impossible to stumble upon since user discovery is non-existent at the moment. Will be improving this in the near future (others who've collected this disc, etc).

I'll come up with an actual roadmap this week, but here's a few ideas that will be on it:

- Bio, messaging, full location, profile photos - Album reviews (only after collection) - Improved empty state and onboarding - Folders to organize your collection - Readable profile links

Appreciate the great feedback!

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by consteval » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 3:12 PM UTC

Beijinger wrote: post #260

consteval wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> stupid, ugly or wrong opinion You can only have a stupid, ugly or wrong opinion so long as Musk shares it. Luckily Musk is uniquely dumb, so that covers most awful takes you can have, perhaps giving the perception of free speech.

That is his right. It is his company. You don't have the right to free speech on another man's property. You have the right to be an antisemite. But just please not in my house, I may ask you to leave.

Literally nobody argued otherwise. All I said is that X is not a free speech platform as Musk claims, which is objectively true.

He, Musk, argues you can say whatever you want on X. This is not true plainly - he is lying. This isn't up for debate so don't bother trying.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by Futurebot » Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 9:09 PM UTC

isaacdaoust wrote: post #262

Futurebot wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool idea. Are you planning to add profile photo, description, and location support like Letterboxd has? Maybe messaging? Also, is there a way to find who else has listened to what I've listened to?

I'm definitely open to adding profile photos. So far I've mostly been developing based on what I personally want because I do enjoy using the service myself. Description has been on the backlog for a while. For location: you can currently set a flag to show up on your profile in your settings, but I agree it would make sense to expand it to a full location. Messaging will definitely be coming. Right now the only way…

That's exciting, especially the discovery stuff. Thanks!

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Post by 8f2ab37a-ed6c » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #201

bradlys wrote: post #79

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> My suggestion is get a hobby that you explicitly are interested in, but don't go in with an expectation that you'll find someone, or make that your primary goal. The issue here is that you need to have hobbies that are explicitly good for finding partners. For instance, I love riding motorcycles. I am happy to do group oriented aspects of the hobby like track days or group rides, etc. The amount of women in that ac…

What I find interesting is that it seems like the vast majority of hobbies are male dominated, maybe this is not true and a bias of my world view. All sports are male dominated to the point where female only activities are sanctioned, anything around collecting, games (board games and video games), cars/motorsports, woodworking, metalworking. The only hobbies I know of that are female dominated is Yoga and crafts. Al…

That's been my experience as well, glad I wasn't the only one to notice.