I saw a lot of hype about Ello in the Hackathon Hackers facebook group. This may be against the typical positive feedback mentality of HN, but it kinda seems li

I saw a lot of hype about Ello in the Hackathon Hackers facebook group. This may be against the typical positive feedback mentality of HN, but it kinda seems like a huge circle, a product of the tech bubble enthusiasm, as no one else anywhere has mentioned it (except on Hacker News that one time). In fact, I suspect the "31,000 invites" was the result of one post on the Facebook group involving an exploit that used dictionary attacks to generate invites for someone's account, which was quickly used by several people, but eventually taken down, and is not their average traffic. I suspect this because my personal opinion, my friends' opinions, and it appears quite a number of Hacker News peoples opinions, while anecdotal, seem to indicate that Ello is quite lackluster, and I find it hard to believe that many people would want to try a social media platform that: a) has none of their friends on it yet b) doesn't look great c) appeals to you through things you typically don't care about ("ads", "data", "privacy")