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I have used it for a few days. Here is my account: ==== The mechanics ==== Basically you share cards with short messages, pictures and videos. When you post a
by bbcbasic 12y ago
I have used it for a few days. Here is my account:
==== The mechanics ====
Basically you share cards with short messages, pictures and videos. When you post a card you infect a few people who are closest to you.
Then those people see it as a card, and decide whether to swipe up to infect more people close to them, or swipe down to ignore.
If you make something popular and people tend to swipe up 25% or more of the time, it slowly will spread across the world.
I live in Sydney, so with a faily dense userbase here, the first infections are in the same city. However if you live somewhere without any users nearby the infections will go further geographically to find the nearest 4 or so people.
The more success you have with infecting people, the more your infection index goes up, and so the more people you infect when you post or swipe up.
In addition there are comments on cards. If you make a comment you get subscribed to the card and altered on further comments. You can unsubscribe from a card when this gets annoying.
==== Expect to see ====
► Memes copied from other sites. This leads to popular cards complaining about this, and saying to not upswipe memes.
► More memes.
► Even more memes.
► Inspirational quotes, mostly cliche but sometimes something new.
► Pet cats, dogs as expected.
► Pretty women, boobs, etc.
► Holiday photos.
► A small amount of politics.
► Screenshot of a plague card, which someone else takes a screenshot of so you get a recursion. Those are really boring now!
► More Memes.
► Vary rarely inappropriate things - NSFW, porn, hatred etc. The system seems good at self policing that kind of rubbish.
==== What is it for ====
In my opinion it is for mindless entertainment. The same way you may hang out on Facebook for an hour because you are bored. This fills a boredom hole and can get addictive, especially with the gamification of rewards (higher infection ability) for creating new messages and getting to argue with strangers about pointless stuff.
For this reason alone I decided to uninstall.