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Uptrust. Another alt-social app designed to foster great conversations
This seems interesting. Someone linked it to me. Has anyone used it or know anything about it? It seems like there are multiple parties thinking in serious ways about what we might call the “alt social media problem” and how to design really great cult...
posted 4d ago with 3 replies

Uptrust. Another alt

The Political Capital Savings Plan
I met Gallagher a while back. He's doing this training course for people interested in getting in to New York politics. He seems like a smart guy. I especially liked this article on political capital. It makes the whole thing quite a lot less daunting and ...
posted 25h ago with no replies

The Political Capita

Pitching a pro-family culture
I'm building a company, although I'm bootstrapped solo right now. I want it to be the most pro-family culture in the world. ...
posted 7d ago with 8 replies

Pitching a pro-famil

Notifications have arrived, along with some smaller fixes and polish
Well it's that time again: 4:00 on a Friday afternoon. Time for the big push of barely-tested code to production! The sofiechan team has been slaving away in the code mines for you again this week, and we have some new updates: ...
posted 2w ago with 2 replies

Notifications have a

Radiopaper
Radiopaper is an interesting data point in the design space of social media. They've put some thought into it and landed someplace very different from Sofiechan. Their goal is to "improve conversation quality," which sounds goods, but they do it buy leanin...
posted 7d ago with 2 replies

Radiopaper

What longform piece is missing from the Mass Deportation/Remigration discussion?
Two years ago a Palladium article was written that forcefully argued that the replacement of meritocracy with DEI wasn't simply a "design decision," but was instead sowing the seeds of an unwind of complex civilization. The article escaped the Muscular Cen...
posted 2w ago with 6 replies

What longform piece

Why should anyone share their ideas?
Say one figured out the problems of today and how to solve such things. Why share these ideas when others take your good ideas to develop their own society whereas you gain nothing but spent time? ...
posted 1w ago with 4 replies

Why should anyone sh

Intelligence vs Production
"Optimize for intelligence" says Anglo accelerationist praxis. "Seize the means of production" says the Chinese. Who's right? It is widely assumed in Western discourse that intelligence, the ability to comprehend all the signals and digest them into a plan...
posted 3w ago with 4 replies

Intelligence vs Prod

Empire Without Frontier Is Dysgenic
People will leave their shtetl and cultural identities behind to participate in The Empire if there are opportunities available to them that wouldn't be available at home. And I'm not talking about computer job opportunities. I'm talking specifically about...
posted 2w ago with 3 replies

Empire Without Front

Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve...
posted 2w ago with 6 replies

Patchwork city state

Images on the front page! And many other minor improvements
Images are now visible on the front page. Does this make us officially an imageboard? Or does that have to wait until I set the op_must_have_image flag? Soon. Otherwise, see these other small changes: ...
posted 3w ago with no replies

Images on the front

"Forum software blew a 4000x lead with poor UX" - Simon Sarris
I really liked forums. I liked imageboards. I dislike many of the patterns on twitter and group chats etc. But it's undeniable that those apps offer a richer more engaging user experience somehow. It's just more immediate with something you want to respond...
posted 3w ago with 7 replies

"Forum software blew

not a ton of new ideas here, mostly agreeing with what others have said already. ... 3w ago

not a ton of new ide

Improved compose UI features
The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today: ...
posted 1mo ago with 9 replies

Improved compose UI

The Slice of Life Mindset
Consider a slice-of-life anime and what it chooses to romanticize. Commuting to work, preparing a meal, reading a book, drinking some tea, watching a movie. The characters are typically unambitious, the opposite of a shonen character who sacrifices everyth...
posted 4w ago with 2 replies

The Slice of Life Mi

America isn't going to become Brazil. It already is Brazil.
According to the 2020 census, the United States was 57.8% non-Hispanic white. ...
posted 4w ago with 3 replies

America isn't going

I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am. ... 4w ago

I wrote quite a leng

A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web. ...
posted 14mo ago with 8 replies

A Hidden Gem

"Hidden Gems" — Rare(-ish) Books list below seems possibly relevant ... 1mo ago

"Hidden Gems" — Rare

AI 2027 (ai-2027.com) posted 2mo ago with 12 replies

AI 2027

Should You Hide Your Power Level?
It's common in radical chan-derived internet circles to speak of "hiding your power level", meaning not letting the normies know just how much anime you watch, or just how nuanced your opinions of Hitler are. Its a sort of necessity to keep the tradition a...
posted 7mo ago with 21 replies

Should You Hide Your

This is great. Thanks. 1mo ago

This is great. Thank

The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts (benjaminrosshoffman.com) posted 1mo ago with 10 replies

The Domestic Product

How to build better anonymous social media: curation and tags
Back in 2014, moot banned gamergate discussion from 4chan. This led to an exodus of the most adventurous and curious channers to 8chan, which had a strict free speech policy. For a few months at least, 8chan was a haven of smart free discussion on all sort...
posted 1mo ago with 13 replies

How to build better