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Thank you for asking me about something other than homepage. For starter Vers has a distraction free feed that only shows you 1 post at a time, and never shows the same post twice. This feed is to discourage mindless scrolling. If using the chronological feed Vers will even let you know how many inches, feet, miles, etc you’ve scrolled. You can throttle notifications to once per day. More wellness features are on the way.

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If the game is still all about network effect, then all things being equal, the one that grab more attention will win, the ethical one that discourage engagement will lose. You have to have something else.

Can you please elaborate? In a future update you’ll be able to hide vanity metrics like likes and followers

network effect means the more users and the more active the users are, then more value the users will perceive, and they will engage more. It is a strong positive back loop.

Do you provide values that do not depends on the network effect? Ethical is nice but it does not stand on its own. Also it requires a leap of faith.

All things are never equal. For example we are here on Hacker News. Not Twitter or Facebook.

In the long run, it is about delivering value to users.

Of course. My point is even if the play field was leveled, the rules are still against an non-engaging social network. I want to know the value as much as you do.

For me, the landing page has a clear value proposition. The value proposition is the service will be low key.

Demanding it be high key is off key.

Low key works for Hacker News because it filters out people who want high key.

I know it’s not for me because I like Facebook and TikTok. Or more accurately, for me they are useful tools because of how I use them.

And the dog gets me off the screen and out in the world.

low key by itself is not a value; A blank web page is even lower key. The problem is how to get people to put their content there.

Hacker News has the audience and YC endorsement.

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