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I actually tried to do this with Diaspora and a couple dozen of my closest friends. We tweaked it to not have like buttons, and like other fun stuff. The idea b
by andreyk 5y ago
I actually tried to do this with Diaspora and a couple dozen of my closest friends. We tweaked it to not have like buttons, and like other fun stuff. The idea being that it'd be our own little space and we could be weird on there and design it as we felt like.
Sadly, it just did not catch on, people were not invested enough in it. These days, I'm not too sure there is a point to this kind of thing instead of a group WeChat/FB or Discord or what have you chat.
I do wish the community of HN had a forum kind of site, not quite social media but something with more persistent interactions on topics and perhaps among users.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI set up an SMF site, about ten years ago. It has about a thousand members. A number have passed away, during its tenure. And tumbleweeds and dust bunnies. Facebook killed it. I keep it going, but no one really uses it.
- bertil 5y agoA lot of people criticise the Growth efforts are social media company —and they tend to do some shady things— but their work leads to large groups of people being active and findable on the same platform. That’s hard, requires a lot of effort and in genuinely valuable. If people included that in discussions about whether the bad habits was worth it, we could have more meaningful conversation about the role of social media.
- DarylZero 5y agoIt's only hard because it's zero sum competition against others doing the same. It seems to happen quite naturally.
- bertil 5y agoNo, it’s hard because it involves imagining a lot of ways that potential users are blocked, prioritising them, explain the product and simplify it. I’ve work for a dozen social media company and none saw itself as a zero-sum game.