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Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?
thinking about creating new capabilities in the space. wdyt
- dotcoma 4mo agowhy? Go for a walk in the woods instead. Spend more time IRL.
- julienreszka 4mo agosocial networks are part of real life now
- ben_w 4mo agoThe networks themselves always were, well before Zuckerberg, before Babbage and Ada dreamed of a mechanical computer, before Lucy got fossilised. The apps are increasingly cringe, and even when someone wins a monoploy so hard their app is defacto mandatory they get rejected and mocked by their own users for presenting content like they're a third wheel on a date who only wants to talk about their hobby and doesn't get a hint. Peak actually-being-social is somewhere between IRC and slack, or if you really like long-form, Dreamwidth. If you've got e.g. a thousand followers, it isn't social media any more, it is parasocial media.
- dotcoma 4mo agoYouTube at least were honest. Broadcast yourself, I remember them saying.
- dotcoma 4mo agoMaybe so, or sadly so, for many people. I still have a LinkedIn account (I login once or twice s week), a Twitter account (once a week) and a bsky account (once a month). I can’t believe I used to have Facebook’s app on my phone.
- onion2k 4mo agoTotally happy with them. I don't use any of them, and that's working really well for me.
- blinded 4mo agoI think unless you were to 100% ban "influencer" crap and ads, which is where you'd have to go to make money or compete, its a waste of time.
- Finnucane 4mo agoMostly spending time on Mastodon these days, which is only made tolerable by its lack of capabilities.
- localdeclan 4mo agoIf someone can create an algorithm that doesn’t instantly favorite bots that reply on every post then sure. However, yet to see this happen