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I believe strongly in the inevitability of new alt-media spaces and digital enclaves that cater to specific scenes. Referring to the failure of past players, I think this has much less to do with network effects and far more with the fact that none of them... 15h ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Yeah it happens. I wish I had a better solution for you. It's been working reliably for most people afaik, and email is tough to get over those final reliability hurdles. Right now we're just using nearlyfreespeech as the provider, but we'll probably have ... 1d ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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not a ton of new ideas here, mostly agreeing with what others have said already. ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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I really like this idea of extending community curation to the newsletter and I’m excited to see the first one. Here are some thoughts I have: ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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

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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... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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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... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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. 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

Very cool, guys. Let (view hidden) 6 6 retry

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. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

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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... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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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... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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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 ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

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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... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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. ... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

I wonder how we coul (view hidden) 5 5 retry

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... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

Nope. The only diffe (view hidden) 5 5 retry

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. 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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) 5 5 retry

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