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Two things I really dislike (actually it is only one). People reinventing wheels, i.e, recreating same platforms by going after Facebook and Pinterest. The Diaspora has not been able to distinguish itself as of yet and now they go after Pinterest.

This madness by people needs to stop.

If people wish to evolve, they can at least attempt to provide something innovative on top of what is already popular. Sorry if my feedback hurts your feelings but it is getting ridiculously boring on the Internet.

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> but it is getting ridiculously boring on the Internet.

I had a chuckle at this.

An alternative to consuming boring things is to create interesting things - which, incidentally, is what Makr.io is trying enable for more people.

So, take your "ridiculous boredom" and use it to create something ridiculously interesting for the rest of us (on Makr.io or anywhere else, of course).

I don't really feel like 'going after Pinterest'. Makr is more about helping people MAKE new things, not just endlessly re-pin and reblog. Certainly some UI things work on Pinterest, but what we are enabling people to do is quite different.

And no worries about feedback, it always helps us get better and better, so thanks!

I am just wondering, what is the end-goal here? What is the best case scenario where you could have unlimited users creating whatever content you want? What does that look like?

Cause I'm not getting it at the moment. It kind of looks like Reddit for ADD kids.

> It kind of looks like Reddit for ADD kids.

Not terribly far off base. We want to build something that helps people actually create and influence things on the web, rather than just re/blog/share and discuss them. It's giving people a really simple way to participate with stuff they find funny/cool/interesting. Later, we would love to power people being able to play and interact with all types of content from all sorts of different places, but for now we are trying to get the core interactions right.

So it seems you want more 'remixing' and less user created/uploaded content, a la Imgur with some added text. Now I'm picturing pulling content from Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Tumblr, 4chan(?) but creating a personal stamp on it and then sharing it.

That to me seems cool, and I can very easily imagine how awesome that would be.

Pinterest? Really? That's what you came up with as what they're going after? I could imagine comparing them to 9gag, Canvas, MemeGenerator, or some other meme site, but seriously, Pinterest, a company which organizes pictures of clothing...

It has a bookmarklet, it has a grid. What else is out there which is new? And do we need a new memegenerator?

A bookmarklet and a grid. Like del.icio.us? "Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love."

The meme generator argument is legitimate, the fact that the layout looks somewhat like a recent site therefore it's a clone is just a false analogy.

what you're ignoring is that Facebook and Pinterest were also "reinventing the wheel". Social networks and bookmarking already existed.

I can't disagree with what you have suggested. But FB/Pinterest and even Twitter apparently had lot more going for them hence they achieved the mass adoption. So one can claim that they were helping evolve what was already present at the time.

This is pretty much how things go. Good or bad things exist and people come along evolving them further. What matters is how are we participating in evolving whatever is available for better and upward.

I think it's recreating something more like a simpler Mixel (mixel.cc) or Canv.as than Pinterest or Facebook.

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