I bought a domain called youfriend.me about ten years ago with the exact same premise, tapping the phones together in real life. But I never developed it.
Cool to see someone did
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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#582Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Well it self selected for left wing ones” didn’t answer my question in the least, so I’ll just assume your claim is false.
Early BlueSky was seeded by furries, the trans community, socialist Democrats, and left-wing folks fleeing an overly Republican/MAGA Twitter. The system was invite-based, meaning these people invited their friends. And those people invited their friends of friends. The community was seeded by a very political base at its inception. The general feed the average user saw when opening the app was activist-political, fur…
Yes, I understand now that this is what the poster I was replying to was saying. But it's different from that poster's original argument, which I took to be that there was something inherent to the invite process that resulted in a politically one-sided user base.
But really, it's that Twitter shifted hard-right to literal Nazism, and so people left. Which is completely understandable.
Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#583Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does a practice have to do good for anyone other than the practioner?
Well, if we're discussing morality, it is generally considered immoral to enrich yourself at the expense of the public good.
But it’s not a public good. .com stands for commercial. It’s literally the opposite of a public good.
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#584Re: I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
#585I find it interesting how old brands are being rebooted. Andersen Consulting is back.
If you can resurrect Old Spice, why not try it elsewhere?
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#586> the usefulness of the app is limited because it seems to be intended for a small, or niche, set of users. Specifically, the app is intended for invited friends only. Isn’t it insane that Apple refuses for an app to be listed on the App Store if it is intended to be niche? If true that’s pretty shocking
So you can't sideload apps on iOS, installing your own apps in dev mode is unnecessarily hard and restricted, and you can't release an app in the app store that is not open to the general public? So if I want to build an app just for my family, what do I do?
I think the answer is to use TestFlight? So you can provide a link to your family that will let them install the test version of the app. Unfortunately it does expire after some time, IIRC
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#587Earlier quoted context omitted.
What risk? They contributed nothing, they have performed no function. Their only claim on it is having been first on the dictionary attack and laid claim to a bunch of useful letter combinations without providing any value or service. If they didn't do any of this that combination of letters doesn't disappear, it just goes back to being available from the primary registrars. The squatters are just vacuuming up some o…
>I don't view middle man parasitic behavior as valuable, and see no market value performed here other than extraction. Seeing middlemen businesses as "parasitic behavior" is a common misunderstanding of their role in the economy. They make possible commercial transactions between initial producers and ultimate end-consumers, where and/or when such transactions could never have taken place affordably without their pre…
Except in this case the middleman added thousands of dollars to the cost without adding anything of value: not curation, not discovery, nothing. Without this middleman acquiring an expired domain would have been whatever the nominal registrar cost (somewhere between $10 to $100 or so per year for a domain)
Useful middlemen do serve a role and add value. A parasitic middleman just extracts value without adding any value anything in return.
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#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
He founded a domain brokerage for squatters and seems to be squatting on other domains for ad revenue (read the section about the trade he made).
Domain registration for the purpose of resale is legit. Plenty of available names and extensions to choose from.
A thing can be both technically legitimate and also annoying and shitty.
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#589Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t know about immoral, but it is at the very least a bit sleazy. When I look for domains for side projects, I very rarely have to abandon a name because it’s been taken by an actual operational service; it’s almost always because someone is squatting it with a “parking” page filled with sketchy ads that they’re paying almost nothing for. That isn’t doing any good for anyone besides the squatter.
Why does a practice have to do good for anyone other than the practioner?
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#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, if we're discussing morality, it is generally considered immoral to enrich yourself at the expense of the public good.
But it’s not a public good. .com stands for commercial. It’s literally the opposite of a public good.
Allowing people to pay a fair price for the resources they need to start a business (rather than paying scalper prices to the bridge trolls who got there first) serves the public good. “For the public good” includes more than just feeding blind orphans.