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Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by chaosmonger7 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #60

Shouldn't an “Anti-Social” social network, however minimal, be NO Social Networks?

This is the problem for sure.

I hate social media and I am someone who this site is directed at. What I like about HN is the interaction but no "followers". Of course, people want their thoughts to not be disliked but it is not a childish, high school popularity contest that if you get popular enough, you get paid for being popular.

A network without nodes and edges isn't a network.

Myspace also didn't brand itself as "super internet forum" or something like that. If you really do something different to interest people who hate social media, it will need to have no resemblance to social media.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by kevincox »

> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS?

> A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed.

This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure.

The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into your feed reader. This may also help SEO as Google and other search engines will discover and watch the feed.
I wrote a bit more detail about auto-discovery here: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#disc...

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by kevincox »

MontgomeryPi2 wrote: post #72

I could see this being useful for a community-based website where it could be embedded into a page on the site (like an iframe), so many 'admins' could provide updates.

It seems that you could do this via their RSS feeds. There lots of RSS "widgets" that can be embedded onto your page.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by kevincox »

camgunz wrote: post #70

Super cool. Reading the subject-line-only requirement, I love it, but the nerd in me is like, "just only accept the text/plain MIME-type!". But, yeah either way very cool B)

The problem with this is that email has no negotiation. So you then need to teach users how to configure their email client to compose in plain text. Otherwise users will be confused when their message renders differently after sending and from how it appears in their outbox. (IIUC most clients will generate a text/plain message, but this isn't very visible to users).

By using the subject line the composer is already forced into plain text and so the user will get a more accurate "preview" of how the final post will look.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by kevincox »

AdamH12113 wrote: post #20

I doubt this will go anywhere, but I still enjoyed reading it. The really clever part for me is the way it uses email to do most of the work. In particular: > Q: What if I lose my secret Daft Social email address? > A: If you already sent posts, you should find it in the sent emails folder. Brilliant.

I think it would be extra-clever to generate a contact card for the user after sign up. Then they can just import it into their address book.

...of course this relies on the user having vCard set up to open with the address book that they actually use. And it is surprising how broken most user's setups are.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by nsagent »

kevincox wrote: post #73

> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS? > A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed. This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure. The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into…

I'm pretty sure that this is intentional. The site's called Daft Social for a reason. There isn't even a link back to the homepage from a given user page and there's no way to find users unless they post their profile link somewhere. Maybe that philosophy will change, but personally I really like just how brutally minimalist the site is. The site was created by Pascal Deville, who's also behind https://brutalistwebsites.com/

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by corruptnetwork »

kevincox wrote: post #73

> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS? > A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed. This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure. The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into…

Great, just implemented auto discovery links into the userpages. Go check out: e.g. https://daftsocial.com/daftsocial/

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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Post by kevincox »

corruptnetwork wrote: post #79
kevincox wrote: post #73

> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS? > A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed. This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure. The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into…

Great, just implemented auto discovery links into the userpages. Go check out: e.g. https://daftsocial.com/daftsocial/

Nice, works perfectly. If I put that URL into my reader it now finds the feed automatically.
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