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Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#1

Post by lcnmrn » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 6:46 PM UTC

Subreply – An open source text-only social network
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Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#2

Post by PaulHoule » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#3

Post by chistev » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

But there are no images here

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#4

Post by ramon156 » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:09 PM UTC

chistev wrote: post #3

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

But there are no images here

... hence the comment

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#5

Post by stupidgeek314 » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:23 PM UTC

> text only > emojis

xD

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#6

Post by diath » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:26 PM UTC

You probably want to pin requirements to specific versions of the libraries.

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#7

Post by mbirth » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:35 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

Yeah, this reminds me of old Reddit where people resorted to imgur and other image hosts before they introduced their own photo upload feature.

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

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Post by PokemonNoGo » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

mbirth wrote: post #7

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

Yeah, this reminds me of old Reddit where people resorted to imgur and other image hosts before they introduced their own photo upload feature.

Is that bad? Resorting to a dedicated party for rich content? I enjoyed reddit more when it was like that honestly. Business wise it is the wrong decision though.

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#9

Post by _jplc » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:58 PM UTC

Trendiest post is from the developer saying "Mastodon is dead", four weeks ago, 12 replies.

Sure bud.

Re: Subreply – An open source text-only social network

#10

Post by latchkey » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:14 PM UTC

chistev wrote: post #3

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Gotta say that (1) images greatly improve engagement on things like Mastodon and Bluesky and (2) I have the most fun on those platforms sharing photos that I took.

But there are no images here

I've been keeping a list of features to build into a HN browser extension for years now and this is one of the top items on my list. One of these days I'll get around to it.