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Maybe pay them a visit.
Maybe "get up and travel to a different country" is not as simple as it sounds.
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I have a heap of family and friends who live in a different country to me. I'd love an old school Friendster / early Facebook-style social medium where we could share posts, but the tapping mechanic makes this impractical for me.
Maybe pay them a visit.
The 'tapping phones' gimmick strikes me as something that sounds cute but will become an annoying chore that one should be able to opt out of. Particularly given various unintended side effects -- I personally wouldn't want my connection to my deceased best friend to be subject to some decay feature on a social network. And either way, it's not the core feature that will draw users to the site If you want to differen…
Perhaps "remember when you met with your friends?" But taking a photo (possibly a group photo) is a more natural way to do that. Maybe it should integrate with photo-taking somehow? It would be annoying if you met up, forgot to do the ritual in person, and had no way to fix it.
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>Twitter is a haven for people who are fans of generating non-consensual porn of others, white supremacy/white nationalism, murder of innocent civilians, and other reprehensible things. It's really not. It's where everyone is right now. The Trots and Maoists. The demsoc local politicians. The vegan militant organizers. Etc. You can also include whatever shitty group you want to cherry pick to make your disingenuous a…
Based on this reply and others, it seems Twitter is frying your brain and you should probably stop using it. Care to actually refute my point instead of saying “nuh uh” and lobbing some childish insults my way?
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How does it work? Bluetooth?
I'd imagine Friendster uses NFC. I developed a proof of concept of a tap-to-connect social network a couple of years ago which used NFC - on both phones you had to have the app open and press a button in the app to put it in both broadcast and receive mode, which seems like what is shown here. Some notes: - It had to be an app because the web NFC API[0] only allows a browser to act as an NFC reader rather than emulat…
I suppose getting special "NFC card" permissions when they already struggled to get the app in the store would have been a bit much.
Considering I have most of my friends living abroad and how little I get to see other people (especially the ones that would use this app), I won't even bother downloading it. I don't need an app to feel lonely...
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Based on this reply and others, it seems Twitter is frying your brain and you should probably stop using it. Care to actually refute my point instead of saying “nuh uh” and lobbing some childish insults my way?
I never claimed to actively use Twitter anywhere in here.
I attended a concert last night and was wishing for this exact kind of app, being able to quickly exchange a follow with someone you just met in real life but will otherwise never see again unless you specifically ask for their name/number, which is awkward. Could spawn some special relationships.
> unless you specifically ask for their name/number, which is awkward How is this any less awkward? "Oh do you have the new Friendster app?" "Friendster? Isn't that from the 1900s?" "No, the new Friendster, see you download it, register, then we bump phones...." Maybe just because I'm an autistic introvert, but the idea of asking someone to exchange numbers is terrifying enough, but at least this is an almost univers…
Wow, the phone tap requirement, love it! And your ethics, the best part. Constructively, of course (if you care for feedback devolving ramble-y): Could almost see myself using a web app version of this for kicks. But can’t sign up for another network (though would be happy to link a self hosted project, if I could stumble through setup). Apps don’t feel private (Apple neglects to offer basic firewall/other features),…
if op is really serious about fixing social networking he needs to figure out a way to operate it that wont enshittify.
ie, public good, not for profit, something like that.
as is hes already signaled he intends to enshittify it eventually ("premium features"..?) which to me is a non-starter.
the problem is that a successful network beyond a certain size like this needs funding. its unfortunate but this needs legal /compliance, moderation, even marketing...
those things aren't free, but you could imagine ways to pay for them. Id totally accept a small subscription fee for a network like this if paying that fee could guarantee privacy, and that the person hosting all my data would not be looking to squeeze every dime of value out of me as a user.
anything less than solving the funding problem and you are just saying you will become facebook (or get bought by them). no thanks.
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> $20k dollars in bitcoin (I can’t say how much bitcoin that is because it fluctuates too much to be a stable currency), to buy a dead domain that makes $9k a year in at revenue That's...a good deal? Assuming even 50% margins, that's a solid yield.
It’s nothing of value buying nothing of value. If you only see dollars and not the utter nonsense you’re either young or not very bright.
And this is Hacker News, not 4chan or Twitter. Comments are for insight, discussion, etc. But maybe you're just young or not very bright.