Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

Post by louispereira » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:03 PM UTC

b3nji wrote: post #78

louispereira wrote: post #55

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Hey Asim. I appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully (and elegantly) lay out your thoughts. At the moment, I don't want Nicheless to perform a similar function to Twitter. I love Twitter and use it daily, but I find it useful as a space to reach a broad audience of people I don't know. An open network with unlimited growth potential. With nicheless, I want it to be the opposite. A place to follow people you alr…

This is an excellent idea, I love the thought you have put into it. A cap is also great, I've been a member of a wonderful social network that employs this stance, 10,000 all in, every year they open it up by deleting dead accounts. It keeps it running fine. More power to us, through your project.

Post by louispereira » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #75

louispereira wrote: post #72

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Hey! I'm sorry you find the title intimidating. You could just use a random character in your title, or even a whitespace, to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post. Regarding the individual URL, if you don't want to click to copy it using the current flow, you could just CMD+Shift+C to copy the URL?

> You could just use a random character in your title As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way. If there is a place for a title a post I write has to have a good title or no title at all. > or even a whitespace to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post. If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise. > Regarding the individual…

Post by louispereira » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:09 PM UTC

grvdrm wrote: post #92

I signed up. https://nicheless.blog/author/crc I like the extreme simplicity. It motivates me to write something and worry less about whether that writing is a properly crafted story. I think of my Substack as the place that requires something with more polish, and Twitter is for very short takes, opinions, conversations. This site sits somewhere in the middle. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves!

Post by reacharavindh » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:17 PM UTC

louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

Post by bachmeier » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 1:28 PM UTC

swidi wrote: post #37

I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go. These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.