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Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us.... posted 1y ago with 28 replies (collapse hidden) retry 23 23 meta philosophy lifestyle

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Convenience features for conversations
Hey anons, we added some features: if you mouse over post references, you'll see a copy of the post pop up so you can see which it is and read it without having to navigate to it. Also, (you) and (op) are appended to references as appropriate. A few other ... posted 21h ago with 2 replies (collapse hidden) retry 8 8 meta

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Designing a word frequency auto-tagger for sofiechan
Let's talk about the upcoming auto-tagger architecture. All it has to do is produce affinity scores between threads and tags, and our now existent smart tag selector will select a high-affinity set of tags that also make a good index. To do this, it's goin... posted 7d ago with 3 replies (collapse hidden) retry 9 9 technology meta informatics

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Alt-social failures, coolness, and Good work
The central issue with all these 'alt-social' sites is coolness. A quick binary measure of coolness for websites is the existence of an /about page. Radiopaper has one, as does Uptrust, so they go immediately in the bin.... posted 3w ago with 9 replies (collapse hidden) retry 18 18 meta gnon startups

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Do you wish to subscribe to our newsletter? (experimental)
Hey anons, this week we have a big delivery: the sofiechan newsletter. It seems to work. We're shipping it. Head to the "you" page and click the endorse icon on the newsletter question to subscribe, and you should receive something in the hour after Monday... posted 2w ago with 6 replies (collapse hidden) retry 21 21 meta

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Ergonomic features for anons and namefags: pronouncable nyms and profile pages
This week in the sofie mines, we've got pronounceable non-sequential anon ids (anon_haho, anon_ryfi, anon_lifo, etc), and custom nym bios and even profile pictures for nyms with proper usernames. Check it out.... posted 3w ago with 3 replies (collapse hidden) retry 13 13 meta

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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... (www.uptrusthq.com) posted 4w ago with 3 replies (collapse hidden) retry 8 8 meta coordination startups

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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 1mo ago with 2 replies (collapse hidden) retry 15 15 meta

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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 1mo ago with no replies (collapse hidden) retry 10 10 meta

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"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... (x.com) posted 1mo ago with 7 replies (collapse hidden) retry 12 12 technology meta

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Improved compose UI features
The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today:... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies (collapse hidden) retry 11 11 meta

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Matching for anonymous private messages now works
We've been talking about this one for far too long, but now finally it's here: you can dm with other anons. Right now the only way to dm is to get matched by liking/following each other's nyms. This is neat but not as useful as it could be. We're also goin... posted 2mo ago with 6 replies (collapse hidden) retry 14 14 meta

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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 2mo ago with 13 replies (collapse hidden) retry 17 17 technology meta coordination

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more useful nyms dashboard in "you" page
One of you asked for more clarity on how nyms work, and when I explained it, we realized it was all quite un-inituitive and the UI didn't lead naturally to figuring it out. Now if you go to the "you" page to check it out, it will tell you about your nyms a... posted 2mo ago with 7 replies (collapse hidden) retry 13 13 meta

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The plan for anonymous mutual matching dms
Let's talk about how anonymous dms with mutuals will work. Thanks everyone for the feedback on the proposed follow functionality in >>2622. Having now thought about it and pushed up the prerequisites, it's time to plan out the details.... posted 4mo ago with 11 replies (collapse hidden) retry 14 14 meta

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Help me figure out sofiechan poster vouching
Sofiechan's backend technically has the capability to consider not just a poster's posts and votes, but other user's direct assesments of that poster. That is, if you were to vouch for someone, the algorithm would take that as evidence that they are solid,... posted 4mo ago with 7 replies (collapse hidden) retry 13 13 meta

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Sofie dev log thread
I'll journal ITT with what I've been tinkering on and pushing up. It may be useful for those who are interested. posted 5mo ago with 10 replies (collapse hidden) retry 12 12 meta

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4chan vs Tumblr
"In 2014, two online communities went to war. The belligerents were fairly niche social media boards: 4chan and Tumblr. While their short-lived conflict amounted to little more than a curious moment in Internet history, I have become convinced that it actu... (synergies.substack.com) posted 4mo ago with 4 replies (collapse hidden) retry 12 12 meta coordination

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bug reports and feature ideas thread. help us get this thing ready for primetime.
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Updates on sofiechan's curation system: Cybernetic Direct Democracy
I (admin) just pushed a bunch of changes. You'll see it most obviously in the percent signs next to the save and hide buttons, and as colored emojis indicating which posts are well regarded, and which are about to be deleted. Broadly, this is part of how s... posted 1y ago with 12 replies (collapse hidden) retry 20 20 technology meta

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