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Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#31
Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas.

1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile.

2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink. Here at skimmedit we just assume no one actually reads beyond the headline before jumping to the comment section.

3. We know that thinking of original things takes effort. So in an effort to reduce friction and increase positive, well moderatd engagement, all comments and replies are chosen from a drop down menu of pre-approved text blobs. The possible comments are "well actually this is wrong", "came here to say this", "thanks for the gold", "7/11 was a part time job", "I know the answer, but alas there is not enough room in the margins of this text box", "50% off lobotomies today only", "I wish I could upvote this more than once" and "this was a lovely 30 second distraction from the insatiable march of time which pushes us all ever closer to the grave."

4. Finally a real use for "reddit gold". Want to write an original comment? Really really want to spend the time and mental effort letting people on the internet know how stupid and wrong they are? Well for just 10 cents per letter, we'll let you violate the third premise and write a wholly original piece of text. In fact, we will add your original comment to the repertoire of comments in the drop down menu. If you're comment is popular enough, people will pay to use it and we will give you a royalty. Thus you can maintain the illusion that you can make a living off being a writer while wasting your life on our online dopamine casino.

5. Ever wish you could upvote or downvote something more than once. On skimmedit we are soft believers in firm libertarian values like free speech and markets or some shit. We believe that if you're willing to spend the price (in time or money), then you must be more invested in the outcome so your opinion should matter more. That's why we've removed all limits on the number of times you can upvote or downvote something. Good luck!

6. One in ten times the page won't load. Not cause the server can't handle it, but because we hate our userbase 7. Some of our posts are by advertising partners. Those bits of blue underlined text really are hyperlinks.

8. In accordance with our vaguely pro-liberty bullshit, moderation is done by a jury of your peers. When content is reported, we ask 12 random users to decide "guilty or not guilty", and refuse to let them peruse the site any further until they pick one. No further instruction is given before asking them to make this decision.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#32

LinkedIn is the very worst social network… except for all the others. I agree, it’s a complete joke of corporate gushing and posturing and humblebragging and wannabe “thought leaders”. And this is a great parody. I appreciate the work here. And yet. There’s a kind of innocence to LinkedIn, no? It’s the feeling of a recruiting call or a job interview, where everyone involved knows it’s a completely artificial atmosphe…

I agree with this sentiment. LinkedIn is completely vapid and full of all sorts of signaling with no effort, but there's sort of a corny charm to it. Like a compilation of office H.R. instructional videos. I'm sure that future decades' equivalent of vaporwave will incorporate LinkedIn imagery into their retrospectives of the '10s. The data gathering that undergirds it is probably bad though, or at least when the site…

That's why you never let Linkedin access your mail. More than five years since I created my profile there and it asks me every single time I login if I want to invite my contacts.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#33
post #31

Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas. 1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile. 2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink.…

Idea 4 is...actually kinda genius, and I love it. For 8, what happens if the randos vote "guilty", what happens to the poster?

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#34

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Awesome! Very funny. How do I close the Shlinkedin account I created?

I can close it for you — just email me charlie@shlinkedin.com. Sorry that it’s manual right now, I haven’t gotten around to adding a button. I’ll put it on my list to add this weekend!

It would be in spirit to not add a button. Or a button that keeps moving as the mouse approaches it. Or some dark pattern somehow :)

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#35
post #31

Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas. 1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile. 2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink.…

This is hilarious, I want this site to exist.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#36

Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :) This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look! https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

How do you keep up with yourself? Do you work out?

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#37

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I can close it for you — just email me charlie@shlinkedin.com. Sorry that it’s manual right now, I haven’t gotten around to adding a button. I’ll put it on my list to add this weekend!

It would be in spirit to not add a button. Or a button that keeps moving as the mouse approaches it. Or some dark pattern somehow :)

Satire would be to graciously close the account and immediately delete all data.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#39

LinkedIn is the very worst social network… except for all the others. I agree, it’s a complete joke of corporate gushing and posturing and humblebragging and wannabe “thought leaders”. And this is a great parody. I appreciate the work here. And yet. There’s a kind of innocence to LinkedIn, no? It’s the feeling of a recruiting call or a job interview, where everyone involved knows it’s a completely artificial atmosphe…

The stupid pressure of not only being expected to have a LinkedIn account, but also using it to be relentlessly upbeat is so ridiculous. I'm happy to live without FB and don't have a reddit account, use Twitter sparingly. Dropping LinkedIn is the next logical step.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

#40
post #31

Oh boy oh boy I hope the site creator reads this. I've had an idea for years now to make a satirical reddit/hn. I call it 'skimmedit'. Please steal my ideas. 1. Instead of subreddits, content is sorted by font. The available fonts are Helvetica, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Wing Dings, Arial Wide, Papyrus and braile. 2. When you submit a link, the title shows up as blue and underlined but is not actually a hyperlink.…

Idea 4 is...actually kinda genius, and I love it. For 8, what happens if the randos vote "guilty", what happens to the poster?

The post is re-categorized as Wing Dings, unless it was already Wing Dings in which case the jurors are promptly banned for perjury.
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