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by eggbrain 1y ago
Another potential self-selection bias -- if people know they are signing up to have a conversation with a stranger, perhaps they are already predisposed to be more "pleasant" in conversations, vs a potential curmudgeon who doesn&#
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by eggbrain 1y ago
There's also the magnitude of a negative interaction as well to consider. If I have 99 great interactions with someone, but one REALLY bad interaction (they insult me deeply, or say something irredeemable), that can also sour the whole
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Ask HN: Short term housing for founders / entrepreneurs in the Bay Area / SF?
4 points by eggbrain 1y ago|1 comments
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by eggbrain 1y ago
Limiting by referrer seems strange — if you know a normal user makes 10-20 requests (let’s assume per minute), can’t you just rate limit requests to 100 requests per minute per IP (5x the average load) and still block the majority of these
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by eggbrain 1y ago
Thanks Zak, appreciate your thoughts. I hope to have some of the followup posts soon, although you are right that my idea is based around a centralized platform with ID Verification. RE: How to solve for enshittification, I'd mention t
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by eggbrain 1y ago
> Care to give an argument to substantiate that? Because eventually bad actors take any decentralized platform / standard and ruin it for the rest of us, leading us to trust the few good players that remain (see: email). Sure, techn
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by eggbrain 1y ago
> [...] Its 100% about getting people to stay on your platform as long as possible and engage with your content. Usually that means creating content that gets people to negatively engage with your content. So much so, its now referred to
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by eggbrain 1y ago
I agree both with you and the OP comment here. Ideally, I think if we could, we'd only get content from the creators or people we care about -- but that content runs out eventually, and yet our minds still want to be stimulated. To bri
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by eggbrain 1y ago
> I guess we have to assume that Mastodon is not "large" by the author's definition. It's a fair point that Mastadon was left out, and yet it does tackle some of the problems I mention -- perhaps worth a followup post
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by eggbrain 1y ago
An interesting thought (to your point) is what people hope social media can actually become -- in the ideal scenario, is it just us being able to engage with people online in better ways? Is it us being able to consume content from others i
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by eggbrain 1y ago
I can see a platform that gives you just the data you need to stay informed working, although what data you wish to receive and how quickly seems like a potential stumbling point. Perhaps you don't want to receive news about celebritie
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Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next(scottgoci.com)
45 points by eggbrain 1y ago|58 comments
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by eggbrain 2y ago
The author touches upon Heroku in the sense that they say they've used it, but I think it is still, to date, the best PaaS out there, and makes some (if not many) of the author's arguments void. There's been so many apps on H
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by eggbrain 2y ago
I think it would probably help to take the PDF up front, do a combination of checking the DPI and page count to get an estimated word count (as OCRing to get an exact word count might be costly on your end), and then return back a “price pr
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by eggbrain 2y ago
I'm going to post something vulnerable, but I hope people take my comment in the right light, as in general I love YC and what it has done for the startup community. I've been building startups for a long time, and have applied to
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by eggbrain 3y ago
I struggle with how I'm supposed to grok this advice, as it feels like a tautology. E.g. with his chess example, I can't see how blundering isn't just a result of a lack of the things he mentions -- practicing technique, dril
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by eggbrain 3y ago
His point on the significant motion-blur / image quality issues that exists with pass-through is my biggest complaint with the device hardware-wise. I got the prescription lens inserts that Apple had suggested, and when I first put on
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by eggbrain 3y ago
Outside of the fact that a platform will always selfishly want to prioritize its own content and keep users on its platform, I feel there is a growing sentiment from web users as well that most content-based websites are just _bad_, and pla
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by eggbrain 3y ago
I think TipTap is really cool (and congrats on the launch!), but I hope you won't begrudge me a worry: I see from your home page and pricing page ( https://tiptap.dev/pricing ) that you've switched from wording that
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by eggbrain 3y ago
https://scottgoci.com/ I've put an effort into trying to update it more these past few weeks, would love to get people's thoughts on it!
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by eggbrain 3y ago
> Most people don't want to play moderator and create huge lists of filters in order to not deal with shit. Sure — but think of Ad block filters. Filter lists eventually get developed (eg Easylist), and if the maintainers ever do so
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by eggbrain 3y ago
I’ve been thinking similarly[0] about the community ownership/moderation problem[1] and have come to a similar conclusion that I think the next “reddit” will need to move away from moderators and fiefdoms if it wishes to succeed. When
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by eggbrain 3y ago
To be clear I agree with you -- a large platform trying to coerce its users to stay is indeed a bad move. I'm also not trying to put Twitter on a pedestal here, mainly just trying to indicate that this isn't necessarily an "o
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by eggbrain 3y ago
To play devil's advocate, I feel like most social platforms ban or limit most aspects of self-promotion or solicitation to other social platforms (whether out of self-interest or otherwise). Even Twitter for a brief while did this with
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by eggbrain 3y ago
I think from Reddit's perspective, they are extremely upset with OpenAI, in the same way that I'm sure StackOverflow is upset -- OpenAI took: - The entire corpus of data the community had curated over the last XX years - The &quot
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by eggbrain 4y ago
> "...Reddit uses the actual users as the main filtering mechanism (upvotes/downvotes, spam button, report button) and this most of the time works better for most communities." I might be alone in this, but for me upvotes&
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by eggbrain 4y ago
Your top three points ring true (in a nutshell, people won't change their default filters), but the same could be said in general about participation in a community -- e.g. the people that struggle against the moderators in a community
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by eggbrain 4y ago
Would it be potentially viable to make moderators more like filterers (e.g. like filter lists in Ublock Origin)? You could "subscribe" to a moderator if you like the way they filter content, and if you "unsubscribed" fro
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by eggbrain 4y ago
TrueJob | Remote | Part-time (10-20hr/week) / Contract | https://www.truejob.com TrueJob is a small two-person startup that focuses on providing "job boards as a service" for communities like city governments
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by eggbrain 5y ago
As a confirmation, my friend had this happen to them today as well. Perhaps some sort of A/B test?

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