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Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical. The
by spython 9mo ago
Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.
The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!
- twism 8mo agojust saw an animated fellatio
- bad_haircut72 8mo agoTruly recapturing the early web then
- internet2000 8mo agoJust got a 8===D~ drawing past the filter.
- spython 8mo agoThe filter does not show directly whether it's filtered out or not - it's silent, otherwise the game would be "trick the AI filter" and that's a totally different genre.
- spython 8mo agoAs a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes: - Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : ) - Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter - Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN. - Most generous buymeacoffee supporters: tumblr - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack - Hardest slashdot effect: bluesky
- echelon 8mo agoTumblr is still around? That's a good data point.
- maxbond 8mo agoThey're well on their way to becoming the next PDF.
- Imustaskforhelp 8mo agoIs there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr? Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter - Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN. I expected better from HN :/ Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan > - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack How much traffic did you get out of substack?
- spython 8mo agoYeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :) And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness. One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together. Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.
- kubb 8mo agoNeo-Nazi recruitment has been running free on Twitter since Musk takeover, and a lot of technology communication also happens there. I wouldn’t expect tech folks to be more susceptible by nature, they just hang out in these spaces and are exposed to the content more than average. Being tech savvy doesn’t make you immune to the recruitment tactics.
- Juliate 8mo agoThis is a beautiful idea, thank you!
- nkrisc 8mo agoDoesn’t seem to catch “five-legged” horses very well.