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   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   We're on it :)
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   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   We've always felt strongly about Facebook's views on real names: they're intrusive and unfair. So we made Lyra, a better conversation service which lets you have whatever name you like (among other things). https:/&#x2F
3. 63.▲
   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   We just made a demo conversation to show how Lyra works without having to log in :) https://hellolyra.com/c/343
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   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   I used to work for a social network. We used to have 3-hour meetings every week to discuss how to get the users addicted and keep them that way. That's why I now help to develop Lyra, an open, ethical conversation platform which respec
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   Lyra: an ethical, nonprofit conversation service which cares about language(hellolyra.com)

   1 points by lyra_comms 9y ago|0 comments
6. 66.▲
   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   We just do text - but we do it well. Text is both very cheap, and very expressive.
7. 67.▲
   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   Thank you! We charge £2.99 per year ($3.80) to users in developed countries. We aim to keep access free for users in developing countries.
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   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   I used to work for a social network. We had meetings every day about how to "engage the users' dopamine systems." As a psychologist, this was an anathema to me - we call that process addiction. Check out Lyra instead (www.hel
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   by lyra_comms 9y ago

   Please see www.hellolyra.com
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    by lyra_comms 9y ago

    Get your loved ones on Lyra instead. Lyra is an open conversation service which respects language, puts the user in control, and is designed with harrassment protection in mind. We're a nonprofit and don't accept investment.
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Try Lyra instead! We're a nonprofit focussing on control and a respect for language and conversation. www.hellolyra.com
12. 72.▲
    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Actually it makes a lot of sense. You can have a deeply hierarchical conversation, with lots of back and forth and branching to separate threads - and yet which only contains two people.
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    That's great, but most people don't separate personal and work email, and even if they do, they still build up a work-related attitude to email that comes across in personal emails too. Plus, the main issue is that email isn'
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    The reward of seeing a nicely-formatted message which you wrote, and the reward of seeing replies to it which are obviously valued by the platform (as opposed to subsumed under a torrent of irrelevant notifications).
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Hello! Adblock doesn't take care of the fact that everything Facebook does is built around the concept of serving ads. Even if you block them, you're still using an ad network. Lyra isn't aiming to move into Reddit's spa
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Hello! Lyra encourages respect for language by providing editing tools, and display tools, that respect language. For instance, we never truncate comments (like Facebook). We offer users the chance to write a nicely formatted message rather
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Now that is much better :)
18. 78.▲
    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    You're completely right :)
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    In fact, we have already removed Analytics! Could you elaborate a bit more on your concerns with Google Fonts? According to this: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/60464/are-ther... ..they can only col
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Thanks also for your well-thought-through comments. We have updated the charter to reflect use of Analytics and Fonts. We understand the security concerns associated with these services and will be phasing them out shortly.
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Don't judge a book by its cover. ;)
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Hello! Email doesn't have hierarchical conversations, it's not efficient to add people and get them up to speed with the existing messages in a conversation, and number one: when you open your email, you're in work mode. This
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    We will offer a friendly HTML export of all the conversations you own, and all the groups you've created. Apart from that, the only other data we store on you is your email/username/securely hashed password, and whatever you
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Also, we use JS for rendering - it's a key part of how Lyra works at the moment. We'd like to have a graceful fallback to text, but we need some more engineers first!
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Thanks, comments taken on board. - Will upgrade landing page shortly. I agree about those annoying "more" buttons. They are already gone. - Correct about Google Analytics. This is an interim measure and will be gone soon. - Good p
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Human society has always had a certain component of echo chamber, and always will. Which makes sense, because we ask the questions we understand how to ask, and we listen to the people whose ideas we get. Lyra's purpose is to take the
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Hello equalarrow! Lyra can be exactly this - a feed for close friends and family. Just make a group with them in, and set your Conversations feed to show just that group. We have extensive experience with AWS (where Lyra runs) and we'r
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    OK, thanks for clarifying :)
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    Please see https://www.hellolyra.com/about?page=how-lyra-works :)
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    by lyra_comms 10y ago

    For the past several million years, Nature has been working on a brilliant algorithm to determine the presentation of content: the social functions of the human brain. Lyra reestablishes people, rather than fora or subreddits, as the broker