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

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Post by readitalready »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #63
willsmith72 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait Kim and Selena are irrelevant? I guess I'm not keeping up with the times

Yeah that was the most out of touch HN comment I’ve seen in a long, long time. Persistent irrelevant celebrities are a real thing, but those two wouldn’t crack the top 500.

I mean Kim & Selena will always have a certain level of celebrity status but people like Sydney Sweeney are currently a lot more popular. This is in terms of "are they the most popular people right now" as their instagram count states. They are literally in the top 10 on instagram right now.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Petersipoi wrote: post #69
giancarlostoro wrote: post #46

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I feel like that was what made Google Plus better and yet because it was Google shoving everything into Google Plus itself to force numbers… it failed. Circles in Google Plus is the most underrated thing I have ever seen. You can basically group friends under specific labels, so if you want to only share some posts / photos with family, only family will see it, wanna share posts with former and current coworkers? Hav…

I completely agree. Circles were great. Unfortunately, they're one of the things that killed Google+. I remember reading an article from one of the creators of Google+ years and years ago. They talked about how asymmetric friending (Alice adding Bob to one of her circles didn't add Alice to any of Bob's circles) prevented the viral network effect that Facebook was able to achieve. It's a damn shame. I feel like Googl…

> and Microsoft giving up on Windows phones were both mistakes.

You hit me right in the gut, are we long lost siblings? Lol

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Post by pixelpoet »

willsmith72 wrote: post #37
readitalready wrote: post #33

I really wish more social networks would have a "fading connections" limit. So many social networks suffer from stale connections and networks, and these connections should expire after a year. Otherwise, it will permanently define a social network's content and editorial direction without algorithmic control. For example, Selena Gomez will always have 400million followers on Instagram, but she's socially irrelevant…

Wait Kim and Selena are irrelevant? I guess I'm not keeping up with the times

I honestly can't imagine a stronger indicator of somewhere I don't want to be than it having 400m Kim Kardashian fans

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

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Post by malfist »

ca98am79 wrote: post #68
bluebarbet wrote: post #50

>I don’t really care about making money from [$project], but I’d like it to eventually pay for itself. Warning bells. Slippery slopes. I think we should know by now that social networks do not mix well with the advertising business model. It would have been nice to see that eventuality ruled out explicitly here (PS: for the future as well as just for now) .

"no ads" - it is explicitly stated on the website and app store page

Facebook also didn't have ads when it started

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Post by viccis »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #46
readitalready wrote: post #33

I really wish more social networks would have a "fading connections" limit. So many social networks suffer from stale connections and networks, and these connections should expire after a year. Otherwise, it will permanently define a social network's content and editorial direction without algorithmic control. For example, Selena Gomez will always have 400million followers on Instagram, but she's socially irrelevant…

I feel like that was what made Google Plus better and yet because it was Google shoving everything into Google Plus itself to force numbers… it failed. Circles in Google Plus is the most underrated thing I have ever seen. You can basically group friends under specific labels, so if you want to only share some posts / photos with family, only family will see it, wanna share posts with former and current coworkers? Hav…

What killed Google+ is the same thing that prevented Bluesky from ever being good. They had a brief window where everyone wanted to use it, and they kept it locked behind a hard to get invite system for months and months.

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

pixel_popping wrote: post #28
gpm wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even in the US... something like half of people have an android. Starting a network effect product like a social network where you exclude half the social graph seems like... quite a decision.

It's likely much more than half because I don't see a guy working on his laptop and switching on his phone to be able to answer messages, I personally never use social medias on a phone, it's annoying to type.

I prefer most communication to happen from my phone. Keeps the laptop less distracting when I don’t talk with people so much on it. Except Slack on work computer. That one I keep open and use for talking with coworkers. But that’s because it’s part of the job, and also relevant for me and them to be talking about things we are working on.

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Post by collinmcnulty »

mjamesaustin wrote: post #13

This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. I love the idea of using phone proximity as the only way to add friends. I think it will be very important for the onboarding process to be effortless, so you should focus on that. Until you reach some kind of saturation, most people will be downloading the app because a friend wants to add them. Having a way to generate a QR download code on my phone when I "add" a…

I just signed up and it’s super fast. Download the app, put in your name, allow Bluetooth. No email, no password, nothing.

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

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Post by readitalready »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #46
readitalready wrote: post #33

I really wish more social networks would have a "fading connections" limit. So many social networks suffer from stale connections and networks, and these connections should expire after a year. Otherwise, it will permanently define a social network's content and editorial direction without algorithmic control. For example, Selena Gomez will always have 400million followers on Instagram, but she's socially irrelevant…

I feel like that was what made Google Plus better and yet because it was Google shoving everything into Google Plus itself to force numbers… it failed. Circles in Google Plus is the most underrated thing I have ever seen. You can basically group friends under specific labels, so if you want to only share some posts / photos with family, only family will see it, wanna share posts with former and current coworkers? Hav…

Messages group chats are the circles now.

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Post by razingeden »

alex1138 wrote: post #34
readitalready wrote: post #33

I really wish more social networks would have a "fading connections" limit. So many social networks suffer from stale connections and networks, and these connections should expire after a year. Otherwise, it will permanently define a social network's content and editorial direction without algorithmic control. For example, Selena Gomez will always have 400million followers on Instagram, but she's socially irrelevant…

Don't worry, Facebook already has Fading Connections You can be married to each other and your posts won't show up on the other person's feed (there's a post on HN about this)

Xitter was kind of doing the same thing: I can’t see anything my mom posts, but I definitely have to see everything Elon’s mom does.
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