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#62 In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.
Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Quiet World”Re: Minus
#63I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
> high latency Twitter
This seems easy enough for current twitter-fediverse-clones to implement.
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#64Tangential plug, I launched my own social network without feed, notifications, or even a way to find people there. It flopped everywhere I promoted it, but it is still online since I am on free tier of the host service. If anyone wants to check it: https://www.quidsentio.com
> ...It flopped everywhere I promoted it... Have you considered lowering the barrier-of-entry from $19? For what is effectively a journaling app, you're driving an incredible amount of margin out of a scenario where your audience has no incentive to pay.
It is a _shared_ journaling app, not many of those around. I believe $19 annually is pretty low already ($1.58/month). And people have to pay only after they have a lot of posts, so anyone can try for free. If people aren’t willing to pay that, it does not make sense to lower the price, but rather give up the idea.
Even my comment above mentioning has been downvoted twice. It is pretty clear it’s not something people want.
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#6510 years ago, I launched a small modification to a social network I was running at the time - you could only post once per day. The quality of the content went through the roof, but it turned the product into more something like Medium. It had some upsides, but also some downsides. It was amazing to see how such a simple change can dramatically alter the nature of the product.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like that time-based mechanism much better. The karma/engagement-based stuff would just let popular people post more :)
Well, not more. Sending a comment takes you down to zero, you're done. Unless that person likes your comment. Popular posts or number of likes per comment would be irrelevant. The idea I guess is to allow and even encourage a friendly back and forth without burning all your credits. Example. A -I released this tool! B - Wow nice how long did that take A - Thanks, 6 months. At this point, the conversation is done unle…
What if B, for whatever reason, doesn't like A's reply? So A is out of comments for the day, and can't respond to anyone else who replies to them.
B might have just logged off, or maybe their question was bait to intentionally silence A. Either way, A is probably annoyed with B.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like that time-based mechanism much better. The karma/engagement-based stuff would just let popular people post more :)
Well, not more. Sending a comment takes you down to zero, you're done. Unless that person likes your comment. Popular posts or number of likes per comment would be irrelevant. The idea I guess is to allow and even encourage a friendly back and forth without burning all your credits. Example. A -I released this tool! B - Wow nice how long did that take A - Thanks, 6 months. At this point, the conversation is done unle…
Unfortunately this doesn’t help with flame wars where people can go over to a sub thread they get agreement on to harvest credits to then brigade the ones they disagree with.
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#68I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
> Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.
Billy Chasen developed faux-social network called Botnet. Unfortunately, it looks like it's gone and I doubt that name would have lasted long in the App store let alone how he managed to get it through.
https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-ever...
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#69I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
>- Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.
Aren't we pretty much there now with a so many bots posting?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.
All your comment has communicated is that Varnish can scale. Wordpress is not Varnish. The gp isn't "wrong": putting Varnish in front of WP is a possible solution to the fact WP doesn't scale, not a disproof of the fact. Furthermore it's a highly limited solution: WP is only static if you limit it's use to its static features, and configuring Varnish for the unholy mess of 3rd-party dynamic/interactive/form-handling…
Producing cache friendly output is how you scale easily.
A content management system that doesn’t produce cacheable html isn’t scalable and one that does is. It’s not the job of the content management system to serve the cached pages. That’s what CDNs, browsers, and caching layers in general are for.