3 ms·

What a cool concept! My friend and I created something similar at a 24 hour hackathon. Users were players who could walk around on a multiplayer 2d map, and you

What a cool concept! My friend and I created something similar at a 24 hour hackathon. Users were players who could walk around on a multiplayer 2d map, and you could leave comment blocks in the physical space. The comments were essentially nodes that could reference a specific portion of text from another comment, which reduced the ambiguity of what the responder agreed or disagreed with. Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting :)

jachee 3y ago
> Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting Just a heads-up: “media” is already the plural of “medium”. It gets kind of lost in today’s “social media” an (my least favorite[0]) “multimedia”. Each site is a social medium, and only collectively do they get the more-familiar term. 0: “Multimedia” should actually be “multi-medium” Just like when there’s transport that involves more than one mode, its a “multi-mode” transport, and not “multi-modes”. I realize this is a weird nit to pick, but I figured I’d share.
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  I don't know, I feel like this is a fish vs fishes situation. ie fish is already plural, but fishes is still, like, superplural - different varieties of fish is fishes. Social media is a collective noun, I feel like if you want to talk about plural distinct kinds of media there's nothing wrong with saying "mediums"
- exodust 3y ago
  Strong disagree regarding "multimedia". A "book" is the medium, but a passage of text from that book is a piece of "media". This piece of media might end up in an animated illustration that forms part of the "multimedia" presentation. The difference with "multi-mode transport" is the end result involves more than one type of transport - train and truck. But a "multimedia" presentation ends up as one thing, such as a CD-ROM from the early days of multimedia.
terencehf 3y ago
Your platform sounds really interesting! Would love to check it out if it's still up somewhere! Alternative social media are interesting for sure :)

jachee 3y ago

> Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting Just a heads-up: “media” is already the plural of “medium”. It gets kind of lost in today’s “social media” an (my least favorite[0]) “multimedia”. Each site is a social medium, and only collectively do they get the more-familiar term. 0: “Multimedia” should actually be “multi-medium” Just like when there’s transport that involves more than one mode, its a “multi-mode” transport, and not “multi-modes”. I realize this is a weird nit to pick, but I figured I’d share.

jazzyjackson 3y ago
I don't know, I feel like this is a fish vs fishes situation. ie fish is already plural, but fishes is still, like, superplural - different varieties of fish is fishes. Social media is a collective noun, I feel like if you want to talk about plural distinct kinds of media there's nothing wrong with saying "mediums"
exodust 3y ago
Strong disagree regarding "multimedia". A "book" is the medium, but a passage of text from that book is a piece of "media". This piece of media might end up in an animated illustration that forms part of the "multimedia" presentation. The difference with "multi-mode transport" is the end result involves more than one type of transport - train and truck. But a "multimedia" presentation ends up as one thing, such as a CD-ROM from the early days of multimedia.

terencehf 3y ago

Your platform sounds really interesting! Would love to check it out if it's still up somewhere! Alternative social media are interesting for sure :)