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Moxie from Signal was completely correct that your contact list is your social network. Building off of sms numbers was smart. Apple Messages might be the best

by olah_1 5y ago

Moxie from Signal was completely correct that your contact list is your social network. Building off of sms numbers was smart. Apple Messages might be the best social media for me at the moment.

germinalphrase 5y ago
I haven’t thought about the format enough to really nail it down - but some kind of facilitated contact grouping and photo sharing via iMessage would be attractive to me (as a proto-social network without all the BS).
- olah_1 5y ago
  That already exists in iMessage. They added custom user profiles, group chats are first class citizens and you can see all the photos in each chat etc
  - soperj 5y ago
    They aren't if you chat with someone who isn't on an iphone.
    - olah_1 5y ago
      True! I'm thinking that something like Beeper[1] could be helpful there. They actually have an iMessage bridge even for users on Android. It's amazing haha. [1]: https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.beeper.com/
tclancy 5y ago
I did something similar as an experiment and started a Slack for people who had physically been to my home. Unfortunately the intersection with “People who use Slack daily” was small enough it has never gotten past the 5-10 user stage. But it’s fun for what Twitter used to be for me.