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Or not. IIRC, one of the main ethos of SSB is to establish contact peer to peer not pick them out of the crowd (or swamp).
by iszomer 5y ago
Or not. IIRC, one of the main ethos of SSB is to establish contact peer to peer not pick them out of the crowd (or swamp).
- bovermyer 5y agoI suppose. The chance of meeting someone who uses SSB _and_ discovering that fact is near zero, though. This reminds me quite a bit of trying to find someone to email back in the early 1990s, before the web existed. I might be excited by the technology, but if there's no one to share it with, that dulls the excitement rather a lot.
- myself248 5y agoBingo. I played with Patchwork for a few days, but found that no matter how many people I followed or posts I tried to respond to, nobody seemed to see what I wrote, or at least, nobody responded back. So either I was completely uninteresting, or invisible, and I couldn't figure out which to start addressing it. Maybe I'm expected to bootstrap a group of local friends and get everyone onto SSB and then we can talk using it? But if I already know them, we can just talk on IRC or whatever we already use. I'm missing something fundamental about how this is supposed to work.
- aabbcc1241 5y agoSometime I feel half the same when posting on HN: mostly of the time got no response, but at least I can read posts and comments from others. At least you can use it as a personal blog or daily journal when you write not for the purpose of getting response. When the amount of content is built up, it will have higher chance to get response if you're still on the network, and followed the audiences back.
- q-base 5y agoI read your comment :)
- aabbcc1241 5y agoThat's warm :)
- edoceo 5y agoLike Bump on the first iPhone