PaybackTony

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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Absolutely meant discourse. The irony.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
A number of the users from Parler joined the social network I built. Although I don't lean conservative in my own views (center), I believe that silencing those you feel are mis-informed or wrong only makes -- and has made -- the probl
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
When we launched it a couple months ago, this was the biggest question. After a lot of discussion and feedback, this is the first step toward that answer. I was initially hesitant to offer any kind of paid option, but I think allowing users
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
We want to be a place where most anyone can feel at home, but that is a fine line. We don't want to be another politically biased or polluted forum. We have blocking for users and will be extending that to Channels and our upcoming Gro
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
I don't think I could argue with these points. The Privacy Policy right now is only on the Register page and is a standard Termly one. I think some better effort needs to be put into this on our side to make a simple one and have it mo
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
This is a UI bug due to formatting meant for mobile devices . The scrollbars are tiny in these instances. This isn't by design on desktop and is getting fixed as we speak.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
The issue in my eyes is that things like Mastodon are pretty well designed for what it is. A main feature of ours is the personalization and separation which we could have hacked into such a protocol but ends up being a worse experience for
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
A YouTube premium but without the data collection type model is something we've talked about. Hopefully the users will guide us in the right direction with this. We have to worry about fighting the stigma that there is even a paid opti
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
There couldn't be more truth to this. Ads are such a slippery slope. If for arguments sake Slyde grew to be something, it would be due in no small part to the "take it or leave it" approach to ads, if they ever become a thing
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
I see the satire in this. Things like the "Can we make people more sad or happy by being selective on the feed" experiment facebook did is just one of the many reasons we wanted as pure a social feed as possible. People you know o
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Our idea at the moment is to act like reddit ads do. Advertisers essentially make a post without anything more than a title, description, image / video and a url, with the image / video hosted and scrubbed by us. This will most de
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
We've tested on a number of browsers but not often enough on some of them - like Firefox. We don't like all the data Chrome collects on it's users, but it makes up for the vast majority of usage on desktop and Android so it&#
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Thank you for this. Will make sure this is addressed asap. We previously far overused divs (and still do) and have been going over everything making them buttons but still need to do a lot of work in making it more accessible.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
I think that's an apt comparison. Our goal is to make something that could replace facebook but not by being a facebook killer. Instead of focusing on being an anti-facebook we tried to take a fresh look and make up for some of the dis
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
We have a slightly outdated one, it's just not as obvious on that page as it should be. If you click the "Watch Slyde in Action!" it's actually a button. We have a pending update that embeds an updated version of that vi
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
When we started building this we were adamant about making something we wanted to use. There are a number of open and successful options out there, they just didn't work the way we wanted it to. Building a general network that appealed
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
This is in the air but there are a couple things we are keeping in mind. Ads are still on the table, just not hyper targeted ones. The only targeting being to people who follow certain subjects on slyde (cars, weather, etc). Outside of that
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Or at least willing to try it out. Critical mass is THE issue and we have a couple ways we're looking to get past it. Ultimately people will have to want to connect with people the way slyde lets you, and want to share it with those pe
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Our terms are the standard termly terms for a social network, however, we have content rating and filtering. Pretty much we only care about public content and reported content if it is breaking government laws that we know about. Otherwise,
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Thank you for the screenshot. Will get these kinks worked out asap.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
I think mastodon is a great concept, and I like the idea of a community of communities. I think the difference is mainly that slyde was built to have a little lower barrier to entry -- you don't have to pick an instance, for example -
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
1. Slyde was built mobile first, and there is still some work to be done on Desktop, this is definitely a big need and has been getting a lot more attention recently. We're definitely working on it. 2. Yes, for iOS and Android "Sl
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
They did, and we felt like it didn't work because it gave people too many choices. They had some suggested circles, but we felt that if we simplified the logic of separating your life, it would make it easier to use and require less th
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Exactly, we realized right away that we all already have a built in personal privacy policy. We just had to turn it into a UX.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Tl;dr; We built a new social network called Slyde where you categorize connections based on who they are to you: friends, work, family or public. It has anonymous likes / dislikes and profile customization among other things. We launch
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Show HN: Slyde – A new privacy-focused general social network(slyde.network)
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
We are most definitely not facebook algorithms. We actually posted a video on YouTube, hastily put together about why we made it. Though I can't really argue your logic.
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
Most of that is boiler-plate from Termly, who we used to make a terms and conditions that were acceptable to Apple and Google. None of us are lawyers and those platforms have some level of requirements for acceptable terms. We wouldn't
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
This does need to be easier. Up until now we've just had people e-mail deleteme@slyde.network and we take it down. This isn't displayed anywhere, as it should. We promise to have a self service tool within 48 hours to do that. We
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by PaybackTony 6y ago
In my opinion, it's a nearly impossible feat, but possible. I think the only way to get it to work is to generate an organic base that loves it and shares it in that same ilk. It had to get started somewhere and we got there. Our first

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