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by gregasquith 5y ago
Very true. I have to confess to a very leading question there, as I am building exactly this and thinking long and hard about monetisation. I do like the cable analogy and think it's very true. I think ads can be done better/more
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by gregasquith 5y ago
Is there now a gap for a new social platform that goes back to chronologically ordered content from those you choose to follow/friend rather than algorithmically curated content from other sources designed to lure you in?
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by gregasquith 5y ago
Scrollbait?
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by gregasquith 5y ago
Yeah, the problem is those that are seeing/potentially being manipulated by this are (I would imagine) highly unlikely to use a browser extension or (more likely, in developing nations where Facebook is forcing itself on users through
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by gregasquith 5y ago
The quote “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” kind of sums it up!
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Show HN: Social Media with Shared Accountability / Decentralised Approval(shaerd.com)
1 points by gregasquith 5y ago|0 comments
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by gregasquith 5y ago
Django is a sensational piece of open source software - I've used it on so many projects. Seen some replies saying it's a pain to deploy - look at guides for Heroku and Google's App Engine - both are super simple processes. I
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Show HN: Can we do social media differently and better?(docs.google.com)
3 points by gregasquith 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A writing platform with a choice of subscription or pay per article(the-src.com)
2 points by gregasquith 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregasquith 6y ago
100% agreed!
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by gregasquith 6y ago
A lot of advertisers didn't care when Safari etc. did it, such is the scale Chrome has - they just stopped targeting users not using Chrome. Now it's affecting everyone there's an outcry
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by gregasquith 6y ago
There are various proposals they are working under the umbrella of the Privacy Sandbox project, couple of key ones here: https://github.com/google/ads-privacy/tree/master/proposals/... https:/