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by holler 6y ago
> In the righter-wing decades that followed its birth, we simply decided to walk back from the future. Odd statement for an otherwise interesting subject. Pretty sure there were many reasons the concorde was retired and political stripes
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by holler 6y ago
> Byte never really took off Yes so far.. but it's still relatively new. I think competing against TikTok is a challenge, but it doesn't take much for a platform like that to explode in growth... just needs catalyst and continu
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by holler 6y ago
How does this help the problem of ~3 companies dominating social media in the US? Congress just derided Facebook's ability to acquire Instagram in a public hearing a week ago, and now this feels like a similar play. It's a shame t
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by holler 6y ago
The founder of Vine already launched a new short-form video app similar to TikTok called Byte...
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by holler 6y ago
yeah I'm still not convinced... I don't use TikTok but my gf does and from what I've seen, they've really tapped into young millenials/zoomers and created a product that people love. Facebook fatigue _does_ seep int
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by holler 6y ago
And Reddit $150M I believe (wow didn't know that about Discord).
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by holler 6y ago
I'm not so sure, Facebook fatigue is real and TikTok built a better product.
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by holler 6y ago
Might simply be due to IG's popularity vs Blue app... If there's ever an exodus from IG I don't know what they'll do (probably try to buy the other company).
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by holler 6y ago
> seems to amount to about 20 lines of code it's sobering to think that 20 lines of code could potentially have saved 346 lives :/
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by holler 6y ago
> has big design flaws and a relatively bad safety record understatement...
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by holler 6y ago
> Perhaps a method where there is more talking and hashing out ideas rather than following trends and hashtags. I have limited experience with Mastodon but I share many of your sentiments about Twitter and the current state of conversati
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by holler 6y ago
> There is a really good lesson here for folks which is ignore the people saying you won't be able to do something and just execute. I like this. Agree with your sentiment and as an armchair space fan, very excited to see the splash
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by holler 6y ago
incredibly hard to conceive 15 Earths shrunk down to the size of a grapefruit! fascinating
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by holler 6y ago
In Seattle this is prevalent, part of the charm.
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by holler 6y ago
How will this affect commercial real estate? I've already noticed an uptick in "for lease" signs on commercial buildings throughout the major city I live in...
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by holler 6y ago
wow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!
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by holler 6y ago
Good question! But I just write javascript :) very interesting stuff
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by holler 6y ago
> A virus being engineered to be an order of magnitude less virulent seems unlikely to say the least. From what I gathered it’s not suggesting specific genetic traits were engineered, but rather that they were experimenting and one of th
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by holler 6y ago
yes! I think there are a few potentially interesting data points along this thread, such as time spent viewing, conversion from viewer -> active participant, and more. I like measuring the view bounce rate because I envision someone list
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by holler 6y ago
Hey, thank you! By activity I mean chat activity in a given post. Right now the ranking algo for "hot" is based on how many people are chatting + decay time function. It's somewhat simplistic for now (still mvp), but I have i
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by holler 6y ago
> If 4chan had started out with a different seed group of contributors, it might well be a very, very different place. Hoping that's the case as I'm working on a new chat-based discussion site with no voting and goal of open, r
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by holler 6y ago
> The point was to discuss how Reddit, Hacker News, and other message boards utilizing pseudonymous voting are not monopolized by brands, celebrities, and businesses in the same way that Twitter and Facebook are. How much of that is simp
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by holler 6y ago
I agree, the ranking algorithms should be based off genuine engagement in a discussion, not opaque votes or likes. I'm working on a new discussion site https://sqwok.im , with the intent to foster open, frictionless, and acc
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by holler 6y ago
> they removed the game store seems like that might be because no one was playing? https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/13/20864278/discord-nitro-ga... It certainly can be gamer-agnostic, but if they lose
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by holler 6y ago
I think they'd have to change more than their name. The entire nomenclature of their app is gaming focused. That would also expose them to great risk of losing their core user base, at a time when another company Guilded has just launc
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by holler 6y ago
Hopefully it's just them reverting their latest UI changes
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by holler 6y ago
> Don't start a forum ...working on new forum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I agree with your sentiment, we need more/new options.
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by holler 6y ago
Hey really big thank you for posting this! I'm working on a new discussion site and so much of this is pertinent. I may return with some follow-up commentary once I've read through some of it, thank you.
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by holler 6y ago
Hey dang, first, I appreciate all of your comments in this post and your deep commitment to both HN and the state of online discussion. I'm learning a lot from reading your comments. I'm curious if given all that you've share
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by holler 6y ago
Thanks I appreciate it, and hope to chat with you on sqwok! It's amazing how much the state of online discussion is being surfaced on HN and elsewhere lately... I don't have all the answers, but I believe we need more options and

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