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Maybe the stack behind it is down, like AWS or something

Maintaining/Asking for good conduct among educated people

vs

A crowded network of a mix of educated, spammy keyboard warriors is different.

On HN, we mostly have educated people, so with good conduct rules, they all behave well.

On social networks, you see many keyboard warriors and spammy people, where educated people get overshadowed.

- Singularity, Loneliness: we are already heading towards it.

/future - says hi.

- Bringing your filter is nice; I will add that.

- _ addictive_media: maybe some option you can turn on and off when it is addictive and when it is not, something like that?

No, I disagree. What I have seen is that

- Acquiring users for the hefty discount has led the platform to think they can recover from future sales.

- Assuming their buyers will consider them their long-term household shop.

- While new business with a new discount bumps in and the fight begins. We all know fights are ugly.

- Yup, local social first, since we lost that in the online game. Doing something similar on qocial.com

Try https://qocial.com :)

- Redirecting ad money towards users is like asking users to be vulnerable to get paid.

You just signed up to say that? Are you Elon Musk? Lol

I think Mastodon is trying to do what forums used to be back then.

There was no feed on Facebook in the first half of 2006; it was just a kind of scrapbook.

The feed was added in the second half, and that's what took off.

- Hell Yeah, 2000-2010 era :) best.

- Tons of forums coming from PHPBB, vBulletin, mybb etc.,

- Not sure how any social network can exploit users apart from filthy ads and spammy traffic.

- But I think a platform like Twitter is already taking great initiative in that under Elon Musk.

The best one is imgur, which already exists and is dying slowly :(

For those, I think someone already tried building them, but eventually it will either end up adding videos soon and becoming Instagram, or a photo marketplace like Pexels, Freepik/Magnific, Unsplash, etc.

- Filters; very interesting, something like you can create a tab for like #tech and on tap all chronological posts about it from the network?

- Interesting; so see what you follow and cut the other crap.

- Mastodon is cool, but I'm not sure what its future is.

Facebook has several patents related to eye tracking and gaze detection.

You've probably already heard someone complaining about talking about shoes on WhatsApp and then seeing those ads on Facebook and Instagram.

- Interesting; see what we see on today's network, like Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok is not hidden settings but snooping from one platform to another, including what your eyes see and where.

Your eyes don't unlock your phone; they also unlock what you are seeing on your phone.

Your speech doesn't just enable verbal communication; it also sends a message to your phone about what you are discussing.

Many of these can only be avoided by avoiding social networks where such tech is used.

- No AI bots; agreed

- No social engineering; curious what this means here - you mean no social influencing on any topic?

- For freedom, the world always comes down to the jurisdiction and law of your country. If you violate the law, the platform needs to cut .

So,

- a closed social network, where you see what you follow.

- posts are usually chronological unless some posts are muted/promoted.

That's a very common thing; many social networks already have:

On Facebook/Twitter, you see what you add/follow.

Well, what I understand is that you mean - no selling of your content, no third-party SDK, and no sharing of your data.

What does the other thing include in privacy?

Can't you intercept the network request?

The problem with the big open-source companies is that they are always very late to understand and implement the most basic innovations that come out.

Caddy & Traefik did it long, long ago (half a decade ago), and after half a decade, we finally have ngxin supporting it too. Great move though, finally I won't have to manually run certbot :pray:

It's not going to be easy;

- There are many out there with skills you may have.

- You will need a portfolio to show to your client to get leads, or a Usual trick that generally works is offering cheaply to get them on your confidence at the initial stages and then scale from there.

- Network-based leads are the best, so grow your network.

- Join all freelancing platforms, seek work and do not forget to check Ask HN: freelancer thread.

My basic screenshot chrome extension does it for FREE and with many other features like text overlay, market, blur, etc.

Advice: launch your browser extension as well.

I get this Cloudflare captcha to access this page. Such an unwanted step lol.

- To encourage engagement at the initial stage, we have an auth wall for content inside the community, but community owners can change that when they create and choose their domain.

- You can create a community and explicitly mention whether you want your community to be listed and available for search in the community marketplace. The community owner has that option.

- Yes, logins are the same for all communities (like Reddit), currently there is no option to have a different secret for each community. But that sounds like a nice feature to have a separate identity for each community, hmmmm, I will add it in my bucket list and will think about it more.

Oh! What about CSS frameworks like Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc.?

How on earth was it able to generate and clone Images just from UI? Like did it get the source of the URL as well, where it could link those images or what did it actually do there?

Those Challenges can be bypassed too using various browser automation. With the Comet-like tool, Perplexity can advance its crawling activity with much more human-like behaviour.