And once something drops off the front page, it gets seen by almost no one. I keep trying to stop myself from spending too much time on comments (editing them for clarity and grammar, finding sources that people can follow instead of just relying on my claims, rereading the person I'm responding to in order to make sure I actually got what they were saying), because it's easy to spend 30 minutes trying to make a solid comment only to find out that the whole discussion has now disappeared and no one is likely going to read it.
Another nice thing about zero notifications in our new social media app is that the development effort for that feature is very low.
the web is… not free really… but more free than the wall gardens.
i think its biggest weakness is that notifications don’t really work there.
but that bug is now a feature. nice!
My idea was to give people IP-like addresses like the early internet. And start off (until we find something better) with the ol’ Class A, B, and C networks of sizes roughly 16M, 64k, and 256 respectively.
The value I think is in having groups as small as 256 and each group has an admin/moderator. Why are we ‘automating’ people out of a job in the tech space when we could be ‘automating’ them into one.
Keep in mind, the existing IP networks stay. This is just a logical layer.
There are better ways to do it but I think this is an interesting start. There’s even a planned obsolescence built in as the world has more people than the 4 billion or so that a 32 bit address space gives.
Which to me is perfect. A chance to try some new things but a built in expiration date so nothing becomes too entrenched.