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Show HN: Writedown Is Not Twitter
- arisAlexis 11y agoWritedown is meant to be an immutable Twitter only for meaningful text. Utopian? Maybe. Users? Hopefully people that want to give weight to what they say (think politicians, futurologists, financial predictors etc). It is not yet fully immutable even though the database will remain and there is no delete option but I am hoping to attract free speech organizations to run a distributed db or a sidechain to ensure immutability (if you are one of them get in contact). The project is meant to become a non-profit. Anyone interested in participating get in contact (especially if you can help with legal stuff). P.S for the curious hackers. It's an SPA made with Ractive.js and node.js in the backend full es.next with babel (lots of async/await). OrientDB for a social network seemed like a good match too.
- arisAlexis 11y agoAlso, you can already put something on the btc blockchain for free but it needs to be really short
- kensai 11y agoVery interesting. I could see using it for politics, above all, but also as a permanent note-to-self. A personal curiosity of mine. How are you planning to deal with jerks?
- arisAlexis 11y agoGood question. Jerks will have no followers to begin with so it will be of no importance if you write bs.
- fiatjaf 11y agoYou can delete tweets, but not change their date, so "I told you so" is already possible in Twitter (and in probably a lot of other social networks, HN, for example). Aside that, I like the idea very much and have thought about implementing it myself in many different ways. However, I think that immutability is more a feature than a product, if you don't mind me quoting Steve Jobs on Dropbox.
- arisAlexis 11y agoYes but in this way I can write today Hilary will win and Trump will win and delete the false one after result is settled :)