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Hi all, Peepeth creator here. Would appreciate your thoughts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/87k9iz/presenting...

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/peepeth

1) The word "microblogging" threw me off -- for some reason, I hear "blogging", and don't realize it's meant to be a twitter clone.

2) Maybe it's just me, but the full page image of the woman on your landing page makes me want to close out rather than engage and find out what the product is. I'd rather see top peeps immediately, with a partial landing banner for new users.

3) I think the most critical task for a product like yours is curating a good community. With twitter already existing, how do you intend to avoid turning into a boring graveyard of crypto shills (like Steem) or a Gab-like place filled with only people offensive enough to have been banned elsewhere?

4) Otherwise -- it looks great! I'm on the waitlist...how long before you send out more invite? :)

Thanks!

1) Yeah, it's a weird word. Other suggestions appreciated. 2) Good feedback. 3) Branding is a top priority. This front-end is meant to polarize for a certain type of user. That becomes more clear during on-ramp and usage. Copy/messaging needs work. Suggestions appreciated. 4) Thank you. Best way is to DM me on Twitter at @bevanbarton with the email address you signed up with and I'll approve you ASAP.

signed up for the waitlist too, excited to try it out!

Could just copy Wikipedia [0]:

> online news and social networking service

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

On the word “microblogging”: I think this may actually be the fundamental problem with all Twitter clones (so I'm not singling out your project; you just happen to be here).

For a mass-market tool, it should be possible to describe the purpose your tool using words that have existed for more than a couple of decades. At the moment, the shorthand is always “like Twitter, except not quite”.

So is it public chat? personal status updates? a public short-form diary? crap poetry? a personal news feed? a way to contact companies with short messages?

All of these are valid, and maybe it's several, but perhaps choosing one use-case to focus on will lead to a clearer offering.

Technically "microblogging" is the generic term for Twitter's service, as I'm sure you know, but given how quickly they dominated the space it's a bit obscure (like saying "ice pop" for a Popsicle). I'm curious about the polarizing. I've never seen the word used that way before; does it refer to screening certain types out, or to attracting only certain types in? Is the idea to avoid the misogynist and alt right types who have ruined Twitter for a lot of people?

Dumping large volumes of nonessential content into the Ethereum blockchain sounds like an antipattern.

Um... cryptokitties? But seriously a lot of people don't think Twitter is non essential. Once in the block chain a message can't be deleted, which could prove to make better discourse.

And this is why no politician, celebrity may never join it. Too much at stake!

As for microblogging, from the title I thought of a Tumblr/Twitter alternative, but I guess not :)

I own crypto but not ETH, and respectfully I don't want to get into ETH just for this. On the upside thought, making people "work for it" will keep away trolls and time-wasters/haters.

I hope it grows to see it how you like!

Politicians already have https://politwoops.eu/

It looks like the actual data is stored in IPFS; who is responsible for pinning this data so it sticks around? Is the centralized peepeth.com service also a de facto centralized host?

I found the feed to be more interesting than the copy on the first page. The first peep I saw was a meme, and that's great. Lots of software in this space feels too self-serious for memes.

https://peepeth.com/_?id=QmQpyNnU8UaPQdfP5o1HXX4D827NwttTJm3...

In terms of getting paid: As a content creator, I'd like the barrier to entry to be as small as possible. Youtube Views being the lowest, what's the draw for this over Patreon, or even a Paypal?

Good question. It's nice to be able to receive payments without relying on a company. Even if Peepeth.com goes down, you could still be in business on other front-ends (back-end data is open, anyone can build competing front-ends).

The need to bulk post, and fees in general, are likely to hinder mainstream adoption.

Can multiple users share a bulk post? Curious if it would be possible to set up a site that reduces latency by grouping post actions from multiple users, possibly even letting them post for free by displaying ads in the front-end.

As someone who appreciates free speech but also hates online bullying and trolling, I'm a bit concerned that this platform could be used by bad actors to that effort. Technically though, its an excellent concept and very nice at first glance.

s/demonitize/demonetize

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