You Deserve Better!
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You Deserve Better!
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#2I think centralization is the problem here. "One central hub" just becomes susceptible to all the same problems that we face with Facebook et al. To truly create a solution to this, we need an open-source service so that people can go to spacebook.com or whatever for normal use, but properly motivated folks could run their own server too. Sort of like Diaspora, only with a centralized hosting option.
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#3This kind of use-case is actually part of why I started using Flipboard in the first place, back when I had an iPad. I could consolidate my social media feeds into a "magazine" and just skim the highlights.
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#4I think centralization is the problem here. "One central hub" just becomes susceptible to all the same problems that we face with Facebook et al. To truly create a solution to this, we need an open-source service so that people can go to spacebook.com or whatever for normal use, but properly motivated folks could run their own server too. Sort of like Diaspora, only with a centralized hosting option.
Wouldn't RSS fit this role?
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#5"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You're not missing out on anything. Nothing bad happens if you miss little controversies or links to blogs.
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#6I think centralization is the problem here. "One central hub" just becomes susceptible to all the same problems that we face with Facebook et al. To truly create a solution to this, we need an open-source service so that people can go to spacebook.com or whatever for normal use, but properly motivated folks could run their own server too. Sort of like Diaspora, only with a centralized hosting option.
Wouldn't RSS fit this role?
Theoretically, yeah. Someone just needs to make it "cool" enough that people actually start using it as their primary method of social networking. RSS has a niche now, but it would be really cool if it were adapted to fix this problem.
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#7Note: iOS only (for now, anyway).
Also, as German "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" (aka "1 Euro GmbH", a German LLC that doesn't require the 25k capital normally required for a GmbH) sounds incredibly fishy (deservingly so or not). My instant reaction when seeing that in the footer of the Bynd app website was extremely negative; I think it's worth scraping together the cash capital for a full GmbH to avoid that potential first impression.
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#8Isn't it just a prettier RSS reader? basically Flipboard?
Also, I'm skeptical of the concept of "bynd-zero" because it is impossible. In fact it'll be even more stressful because the stream of contents is endless and the only way around it is to shut off this feed addiction.
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#9"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You're not missing out on anything. Nothing bad happens if you miss little controversies or links to blogs.
Hi ndnichols, thanks for your feedback! "Every time someone visits News Feed there are on average 1,500 potential stories from friends, people they follow and Pages for them to see." The FB EdgeRank shows only an average of 300 stories out of these 1,500 each day. Some people do not care about Social Media but some do..and we believe that customers need a better solution to this :).
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#10"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You're not missing out on anything. Nothing bad happens if you miss little controversies or links to blogs.
A general rule I like to go by is "if it's important, it'll come up again".
Missed a phone call and there's no message? If it's important, someone will call back or email / similar. If not, then I shouldn't worry anyway.
> There was a time that I used to check my Facebook about a 100 times a day, but lately I only check it a few times a week. Something is fundamentally broken.
Sounds like something was broken, and now it's ok.