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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by kube-system »

postalrat wrote: post #513
JimDabell wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Make it a PWA. This will make it accessible to many more people. Nobody wants to install an app. Nobody wants to install a PWA either but they will at least use a "web site" (a surprising number will install it if it's good). I’ve worked on a platform for social media apps. When the social network had a native iOS app, a native Android app, and a PWA, users chose iOS about two thirds of the time, Android about a qu…

Could it be you are pushing your native app? Maybe for more control to advertising in your app, tracking, etc. Keep those nasty ad blockers out.

It's probably just because social media consumption looks like this today:

https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/07/23/11/newFile-3.jpg

and not like this, anymore:

https://headlineplanet.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/M...

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by jmye »

kenty wrote: post #340

Good article but sorry but it should not be normalized that you have to have an iPhone to join a social network. Something clearly wrong there.

I mean, god forbid the guy start with one platform, right? Calling that "normalization" is just victimy, whining-about-blue-bubble bullshit.

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by kube-system »

usaphp wrote: post #370

If you meet someone this often to touch your phones, why do you even need to have an app to talk to that person? The beauty of social apps is that I can talk to someone who I can’t physically meet that often

The people I meet in person with the most are the people I talk to on social media the most.

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by postalrat »

kube-system wrote: post #531
postalrat wrote: post #513

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could it be you are pushing your native app? Maybe for more control to advertising in your app, tracking, etc. Keep those nasty ad blockers out.

It's probably just because social media consumption looks like this today: https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/07/23/11/newFile-3.jpg and not like this, anymore: https://headlineplanet.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/M...

How does that change anything? I think its more due to mobile sites acting like this https://www.reddit.com/r/TechNope/comments/urboo6/reddit_app...

A user on a app is more valuable since you get a lot more data on them, and can stop their ad blockers.

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by jmye »

callc wrote: post #221
charcircuit wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They dictate the capabilities that their device is offered and how the device is designed. It is up to the consumer to decide if that is worth the price of the device.

This argument falls apart since there is no real freedom of choice, and the importance of smartphones in our lives. People are becoming more aware that they don’t want a corporation in control over this essential near ubiquitous technology. I see no good reason to follow a “it’s a corporation they can do whatever they want” mindset

> This argument falls apart since there is no real freedom of choice

Absolute, unmitigated bullshit. You are not forced to buy an iPhone by anyone, ever.

> “it’s a corporation they can do whatever they want”

Then perhaps you should make the absolutely tiny mental leap to "And I don't have to buy if it doesn't work the way I want it to."

Apple has 32% market share - pretending you don't have any other choice is utterly fallacious nonsense.

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by NikolaosC »

A guy bought friendster.com for $30k and built an app where you can only add friends by physically tapping phones. Connections "fade" if you don't meet in a year. Sounds wholesome. Also sounds like a feature set that filters out 90% of the people who'd actually use a social network

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by mrsvanwinkle »

jedberg wrote: post #511

> Fading connections. If two friends go a full year without tapping phones, the link between them softens. Not a punishment — a gentle nudge that real friendships are kept alive in person, not online. One of my very best friends lives in another country. We speak nearly every day, but I haven't seen them in person in over a year. Another of my friends lives on the other side of the USA. We speak a few times a week, b…

You may have convinced me that this phone tapping thing may, and I am being super serious here, lead to something much much bigger than mere social networks.

I am convinced that this weird Phone Tapping thing may be the next evolutionary step from both social networks and the dead Internet theory (evolution not meant jokingly i.e. both naturally selected and the baby only got the recessive regressions).

The real solution hinges on maybe a future Turing award or Fields medal on physical cryptography for auth/integrity/privacy... but even without that. This is how Facebook got its "grassroots" userbase, from elite students verified via .edu email.

If a Friendster 2.0 actually doubles down on this physicality, and actually concentrate its efforts on making the very act of having to RE-TAP the physicality of a social connection, for example your friends may have an option to fund your trips to meet together if about to get disconnected.

Or of course it might end up being Facebook 2.0 and sell your Physical data to Cambridge Analytica 2.0 to make Grok beta emperor of Great North America CoProsperity Sphere

Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

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Post by jmye »

rileymat2 wrote: post #242
Loughla wrote: post #216

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You are correct and I don't get OP's point. Don't want apple rules, don't use apple products. They are the business, they can do what they want with it, right?

We have consistently made exceptions to this rule in situations with limited choices. We would not abide by the electric company dictating a range of things, even of you have the option to run your own generator. The truth is there are two reasonable platforms, as long as that is the case we should apply scrutiny.

> We would not abide by the electric company dictating a range of things, even of you have the option to run your own generator.

An absurdly dishonest comparison. Which you (hopefully) knew when you made it.

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