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I guess we're going to have to build our own newsletter at some point here. Basically there should be an option on the account page to add an email subscription that notifies you of new posts, or best posts weekly, or something like that. Also DMs. When we... 6d ago (collapse hidden) 33

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"Hidden Gems" — Rare(-ish) Books list below seems possibly relevant ... 6d ago (collapse hidden) 00

"Hidden Gems" — Rare (view hidden) 00

Yeah its a bit awkward still. “Follow” is probably the wrong concept, the UI needs an overhaul, and i’m going to add other features that clarify things and reduce need to run around “following” people (eg manual dm requests). Anonymous social net... 7d ago (collapse hidden) 55

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Yeah 4chan was foundational. I started browsing as an edgy teen back in 2009 and have been using it on and off since. Like you say, my politics, my sense of humor, my hobby interests all come from 4chan. I know powerful and wealthy people with similar chan... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 33

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Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 2w ago (collapse hidden) 66

Very cool, guys. Let (view hidden) 66

I don't mean to send a strong signal against namefagging. I built the feature so you could namefag. It was just some mild bullying over the particular choice of name. ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) 77

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We're going to do a dumb nym-to-nym dm system to cover the cases where there is a clear intention from the users. But also, it will occasionally hit you with something like "nym abc (you) and anon xyz follow each other. You can DM here". The algorithm is a... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 66

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Yeah thats the idea. I just deleted the twitter app because its so overrun with retarded shill bots. I want a social network, even a small one, where we can be quite sure that we are all free men, and not robots or shills. We need some density of good vouc... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

Yeah thats the idea. (view hidden) 33

one possible recommender system that'd give autonomy or "freedom of impression," I think, is a system which recommends you things based entirely on what you yourself post. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 11

one possible recomme (view hidden) 11

Added the "you" page for collecting all account-related functionality. It's replaced logout in the header, and that's where logout has moved. It also lists your persistent (named) nyms. I'm not listing all anon nyms because any serious poster will have doz... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

Added the "you" page (view hidden) 33

Some changes to layout last night. You'll see a unified title block at the top of all pages, tags a little less intrusive, a few other minor changes. Additionally, we can now (on the backend at least) change the name of tags. I've switched them from 4chan ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

Some changes to layo (view hidden) 33

I’m glad you brought up 4chan vs tumblr. Its one of the things that convinced me to do sofiechan. Basically what we see there is that internet forums are actually massively overpowered as political and social platforms, but seem to be quite hard to contr... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 77

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Thanks for the support. To be clear, anonymous posting will still be the default and always an option. I imagine pseudonymity/facefagging is for when you really do want your posts tied together. Or you really want to have a funny name for this set of posts... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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I don't see the connection. Tags are for organizing the index of threads so we can have multiple conversations going on at once. The thread length limit is so that threads don't get too long to read and navigate. The thread limit might be a bit busted righ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

I don't see the conn (view hidden) 33

Distortion would be a really cool technological problem to solve - and it's quite easy actually with the folks I know. 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 11

Distortion would be (view hidden) 11

I wonder how we could make sofiechan better for deep engagement. Ive already noticed the algorithm punishing people for getting into obscure one-on-one but actually valuable discourses. I dont like that and will probably be changing it. ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 55

I wonder how we coul (view hidden) 55

Nope. The only difference between "Anonymous" vs "Numbered" is whether your posts are visibly associated with each other in the thread. It's just to make discussion easier between anons, while also allowing you to dodge association with your own posts if y... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 55

Nope. The only diffe (view hidden) 55

It's much easier for the renderer not to have to know what thread everything is in, but we will probably do that eventually. We have to look them up anyways to connect the back-references, so maybe we can easily reuse some of that logic. 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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I notice a large number of threads converge on approximately 60% up, 1% down. This is two things: not enough people, so when the usual number of us vote and engage in a usual thread, it ends up with about the usual amount of evidence. But then they should ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) 55

I notice a large num (view hidden) 55