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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 5d ago with 9 replies 10 10

The plan for anonymo 10 10

Well I got it working on the backend. It finds matches. But we don't have the code yet to actually support notifications or private threads. Nor have I built the manual matching mechanism. This is all going to be monstrously complex. Several hundred lines ... 21h ago 3 3

Well I got it workin 3 3

Freedom of Impression
Social media do not quite give us the freedom of impression. They force us into their often obscure engagement-driven "algorithmic feeds". ... posted 4w ago with 9 replies 7 7

Freedom of Impressio 7 7

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. ... 4d ago 1 1

one possible recomme 1 1

Sofie dev log thread 2025-03
New dev log thread because the previous one fell off the front page due to age. If still want to read it, it's still live in the meta tag. As usual, I'll post minor and major sofie channel changes here for discussion. posted 6d ago with 2 replies 6 6

Sofie dev log thread 6 6

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... 5d ago 3 3

Added the "you" page 3 3

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 2mo ago with 10 replies 10 10

Sofie dev log thread 10 10

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 ... 7d ago 3 3

Some changes to layo 3 3

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 2w ago with 5 replies 9 9

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I also think anonymous reciprocal vouching would be the most parsimonious solution 2w ago 4 4

I also think anonymo 4 4

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... posted 4w ago with 4 replies 10 10

4chan vs Tumblr 10 10

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... 4w ago 7 7

I’m glad you brought 7 7

Request for comments: design sketch for sofiechan profiles and vouch graph
It's time to talk about the next two big features of sofiechan: profile pages, and the vouch graph. This stuff isn't built yet, so I'm sketching it out to get the vision clear. ... posted 1mo ago with 2 replies 7 7

Request for comments 7 7

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... 1mo ago 3 3

Thanks for the suppo 3 3

Introducing Sofiechan Prototype Tag System
Over the past few weeks I've managed to find a few days in which to build a prototype tag system for sofiechan. In comparison to other forums, this will be our equivalent of "boards" "subreddits", etc. ... posted 2mo ago with 11 replies 10 10

Introducing Sofiecha 10 10

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... 2mo ago 3 3

I don't see the conn 3 3

Sofie Calls, "spaces" on Sofiechan - feature request
Could be interesting to have some form of "twitter space" / broadcast audio feed for these conversations. ... posted 3mo ago with 8 replies 8 8

Sofie Calls, "spaces 8 8

Distortion would be a really cool technological problem to solve - and it's quite easy actually with the folks I know. 2mo ago 1 1

Distortion would be 1 1

Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out (nothinghuman.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 4 replies 10 10

Shallow Feedback Hol 10 10

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. ... 2mo ago 4 4

I wonder how we coul 4 4