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by cvwright 5y ago
Hey, thanks. The Android version is coming as soon as humanly possible. Which, given the current human, will hopefully be by the end of the year.
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by cvwright 5y ago
> Who do you think is going to pay for social media? Initially? Parents of young children, who want a safe and easy way to share photos and videos with their friends and family. After that, people who enjoy having a nicer experience tha
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by cvwright 5y ago
It’s the only thing we have that can prevent the server(s) from analyzing everyone’s posts, including images, to build a tracking profile that would make an East German secret policeman blush.
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by cvwright 5y ago
> Even with Twitter, I have to make an effort to not "doom" scroll before bed. Yeah, like the man said, the greatest minds of our generation have been focused on getting people to look at ads. They're scary good at it.
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by cvwright 5y ago
I really doubt $5-10 / year would be sufficient to replace their ad revenue. From what I remember from Facebook SEC filings, they make on the order of $50-100 per US user per year.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Federation is going to become necessary. Like with email, or with Matrix chat. Different jurisdictions are going to have laws so divergent that a single platform won't be allowed to operate globally anymore. So we'll have to have
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by cvwright 5y ago
Yeah, what did businesses ever do for us? Besides CPUs that get faster and more efficient every year, phones that get smaller and last longer, global interconnected networks, cars that don't burn fossil fuels, ...
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by cvwright 5y ago
I hope you're right about people being ready to pay. And I think you are. There's a huge un-tapped market just in the US, of people who have mostly or totally checked out of the existing platforms. Glue looks cool. How does thi
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by cvwright 5y ago
I don't think the monetization and business aspect is what makes social media so bad. It's more that they're going about it in the wrong way. You make the comparison to AT&T. They charge a lot of money for the service t
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by cvwright 5y ago
IMO there are two critical components to fixing the social media business model: 1. The platform/provider/server needs to work for the users, not for some shady third party like the advertisers. The most obvious way to do this is
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by cvwright 5y ago
Or, you know, the citizens of hyper progressive Portland, Oregon, who voted down a measure to finally fluoridate the city’s tap water less than 10 years ago.
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by cvwright 5y ago
AOL had to actively find ways to kick alternative clients off of AIM, while simultaneously making the official client worse and worse. If they had embraced their popularity and found a different way to monetize, that thing might still be wi
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by cvwright 5y ago
That crazy shit is only a problem because they built an algorithmic feed that automatically finds the most virulent bullshit, and then shows it to everyone it possibly can. Drop the algorithmic feed, and you solve most of the problem. Unfo
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by cvwright 5y ago
None of us can solve it alone. First we need good tech, like Mastodon. Then we need to move our own digital "lives" onto those better platforms, and start encouraging our friends to join us. For my part, I'm working on a new
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by cvwright 5y ago
There is synapse-admin https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin/ The matrix-docker-ansible-deploy playbook will install it for you very easily. All it takes is enabling one config option.
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by cvwright 5y ago
I’m glad you phrased it like that, because I think it explains a lot of the talking past each other that’s going on here. The article is not titled “How to be rich af”. It’s How to do Great Work. So Gates is the example here because he bui
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by cvwright 5y ago
You think that Facebook and Google build these huge warehouse-size data centers all over the world for fun? You think they wouldn’t rather have the cash?
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by cvwright 5y ago
You hit right on the two biggest challenges. First, I’m trying really hard to get an Android version ready by the end of the year. Second, we’re going to be offering some group deals and discounts, so one person can pay to get their whole f
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by cvwright 5y ago
I see no problem with letting idiots say idiotic things. As your quote shows, the world has survived the idiots for a very long time. The problem with social media is not that there are people saying things that are dumb or wrong. The prob
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by cvwright 5y ago
Wow, well said. We are trying to build something like this with Circles. https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios It’s E2E encrypted, so the server can’t datamine your posts or meddle with your timeline. Built
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by cvwright 5y ago
The argument was that Facebook is so big that they’re a danger. Limiting their speech is not compatible with US law, as you mention. So the proper solution is not to limit what they can say. It’s to stop them being so big that they are a
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by cvwright 5y ago
People use FB as a dating site?
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by cvwright 5y ago
Sure, the root of the problem is the humans. But IMO you minimize the importance of controlling that gain. HN is full of humans, too, but here the worst/craziest stuff usually gets reduced visibility. On the big "social&quot
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by cvwright 5y ago
No but we do have anti-trust law
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by cvwright 5y ago
This is not necessarily the result of capitalism. This is the result of people wanting something for free. Which normally is like the opposite of capitalism.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Social media doesn’t have to be awful. The current platforms are awful because they work for advertisers, not for users.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Yeah collective action would be moving your friend group onto an alternative platform. Which is what we should be doing.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Hey there HN, This is something that I've been wanting for quite a while, and now I've finally got a working prototype. It's a social networking app where every post is encrypted from end to end, aiming for the best things a
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Circles: An End-to-end encrypted social network built on Matrix(testflight.apple.com)
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by cvwright 5y ago
Thanks geerlingguy. I used Emby for a long time, but somehow missed the whole Jellyfin thing. Definitely going to try out the setup from this article.

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