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> The strength of your connections to other feeds and users represents how useful their content recommendations have been to you in the past and they could be u
by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> The strength of your connections to other feeds and users represents how useful their content recommendations have been to you in the past and they could be used as a measure of how likely their future recommendations will be worth your time (ie, trust that they won't waste your time).
Your intention is noble, but this is still based on network effects and a positive feedback loop. I doubt you can beat the social medias in their own game.
- lonk11 5y agoTrue, the network effects of the traditional social media are strong. LinkLonk needs a critical mass of users for network effects to kick in. To make it worthwhile for the users before the project reaches that point, I am trying to make LinkLonk a better tool that helps you keep track of the content you liked (kind of a bookmarking service) and helps you follow RSS feeds in (kind of a feed reader). If you have other ideas of how to make it more useful before we have enough users - let me know.
- derekzhouzhen 5y ago> If you have other ideas of how to make it more useful before we have enough users - let me know. I have an idea; maybe you can enable people to publish a list of links that are curated by themselves, in the form of a RSS feed. This way your user can have a sense of ownership.
- lonk11 5y agoThanks for the idea! LinkLonk already has a concept of a "list of links" - collections. When you upvote a link you put it into one (or more) of your collections. What you are suggesting is similar to another idea I had (https://linklonk.com/item/9146000221282140160 https://linklonk.com/item/9146000221282140160): "An option to generate a publicly visible url for any of your collections. This could help you share your collection of liked items with other people. And it could help LinkLonk get new users." Adding an RSS feed for these publicly accessible collections would be a natural extension.
- derekzhouzhen 5y agoThanks for considering it. my email address is derek _at_ 3qin.us. Shoot me an email if you want; I may have more ideas.
- lonk11 5y agoThe initial version of sharing collections by link is done: https://linklonk.com/collection/programming-yUlhkwDXFb https://linklonk.com/collection/programming-yUlhkwDXFb RSS would be the next step.
- hopesthoughts 5y agoRSS for everything would be epic!!