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Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by watwut »

j45 wrote: post #20
xwowsersx wrote: post #7

> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post. > We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of…

It wasn’t lofty. It was real and existed that way. For some time too. Maybe the scientific approach to manufacturing and maintaining adoption and the ways to do it was part of the issue. Experiencing this early way expanded your mind and viewpoints, instead of feeding your more on the track you are to keep you scrolling. It wasn’t as much as everything was new, only that there were so many different things being expe…

Arguably, a lot of early radicalization happen because folks are open to accepting viewpoints and things they know nothing about, more and more toward extreme.

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by dgb23 »

watwut wrote: post #31
j45 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn’t lofty. It was real and existed that way. For some time too. Maybe the scientific approach to manufacturing and maintaining adoption and the ways to do it was part of the issue. Experiencing this early way expanded your mind and viewpoints, instead of feeding your more on the track you are to keep you scrolling. It wasn’t as much as everything was new, only that there were so many different things being expe…

Arguably, a lot of early radicalization happen because folks are open to accepting viewpoints and things they know nothing about, more and more toward extreme.

Could be the other way around too.

The more people understand the more are they pushed away from apathetic mainstream beliefs, that lull you into the comfort of the herd and distract you from fundamental issues.

Maybe it’s also two sides of the same coin?

But personally I have to actively disengage with politics in order to keep my sanity and focus on the day to day and my personal challenges. The less I educate myself actively, the more comfort I feel in how things are going.

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by charcircuit »

chrisco255 wrote: post #12

When should an app do a wait list? Almost never. I get so annoyed at wait lists I never bother to participate or come back. Clubhouse infamously had this gated access thing on its launch and I don't think they had opened it up before Twitter launched Spaces. How can you expect to build a presence in a world with infinite options if you make people wait some indeterminate time to use your app? Sorry. Might as well not…

It's marketing strategy.

Would you rather be a 1k user app where no one is excluded or would you rather be a 100k user app while excluding 5k people.

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by annoyedthrowawy »

xwowsersx wrote: post #7

> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post. > We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of…

> We believe in freedom of speech

That just isn't possible. If you try and "oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform" you'll just be arrested on terrorism charges and face 25 years in jail unless you take your site down or give backdoor access.[0]

I fucking HATE these people with zero experience coming along and saying "oh we're free speech", you can bet your ass they'll cave on the first DMCA/GDPR/takedown/door kicked in notice they get.

Note. I'm not in anyway condoning "hate speech" or any other abuses of free speech, but I'm just annoyed that these kind of people shit out these meaningless words without any understanding of what "true" free speech entails. And there's a lot more bad than good in actually supporting it.

[0] personal experience

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by jug »

They haven't even launched yet and are already talking of The Personalized News Feed and the old discussion about a chronological feed is already going in the comments.

No thanks. I already see where this one is going. Chronology and non-personalizing has become a good litmus test over the last decade of social.

I'll get my news, viral and not, on Mastodon instead. It's such a relief to be there. Like being able to breathe fresh air, not a stale echo chamber that is built for me.

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by JakeAl »

paxys wrote: post #15
xwowsersx wrote: post #7

> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post. > We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of…

I remember a time when social media was like they describe. It was when I was in college and we used it to share photos of each other drunk at parties. It turned into a disaster the moment people decided it was also a good place to discuss news and politics. If you want to recreate "fun social media", focus on the things that made it fun in the first place and remove everything else. And you'll be too late, because p…

I disagree. People use social media for different purposes. One is to post about yourself, my least favorite, another is to post links to information and knowledge of interest to those with similar interests. People posting about themselves do nothing to up the IQ and awareness of the population and lead to mental health issues as well as feed narcissism. News and information can lead to learning and debate and all those great things that came out of classroom discussions in college. It only goes bad where there's a culture clash or people are unsophisticated, ideologues, or lack critical thinking skills. For rational and curious minded people, it's great though.

Re: So why a News Feed?

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Post by JakeAl »

tqi wrote: post #16

> We want Real People to access Real News the way they want to, in their feed, alongside the rest of their content. People should be able to interact and share through Civil Conversations. Implying what, that other companies don't? People think social media was freeloading off of newspapers, but the reality imo is that the internet killed classifieds and consolidated the market around a handful of national papers (NY…

Some don't. Since the rise of gamification design has in many cases been to promote clicks for ad revenue.
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