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5 pointscliftonc11y ago4 comments

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fiatjaf11y ago· 2 in thread

Friends, news feeds, public or private posts, following.

Why Facebook is the only model of "social network" and its features considered the canonical "social network" features? No one is ever going to make a social network that does not resemble the experience of having infinite things to read and the urge to share everything that happens to you in a personal space, expecting it to be shown automatically to others?

Is this really how a "social network" in the real world works?

cliftoncOP11y ago

Fair comment, they just seemed like good interactions to begin with as they are well understood. Given we can take this in any direction, what other dynamics do you think might be of interest?

fiatjaf11y ago

This was more a rant against the idea of a "social network" than a critique of your work. I'm sorry, I don't know what to say about your library. I imagine it could be useful for people that like this specific idea of social network (which seems to be almost everyone), but I don't see where exactly.

I hoped also that the fact that there was a comment attracted more people to the discussion about your library (and also my rant), because it seems a nice piece of software.

cliftoncOP11y ago

I started building this because I have a requirement at my current company, and wanted to understand the problem space before I figured out if there was anything out there I could just use ... Then I got hooked and just kept writing code ;) I originally used the Twissandra project for inspiration (huge thanks). Ultimately looking for feedback on how useful this is to anyone else, and ideally other contributors who can help flesh it out and get some client libraries for various platforms built.

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4 comments · 2 top-level

fiatjaf11y ago· 2 in thread

Friends, news feeds, public or private posts, following.

Why Facebook is the only model of "social network" and its features considered the canonical "social network" features? No one is ever going to make a social network that does not resemble the experience of having infinite things to read and the urge to share everything that happens to you in a personal space, expecting it to be shown automatically to others?

Is this really how a "social network" in the real world works?

cliftoncOP11y ago

Fair comment, they just seemed like good interactions to begin with as they are well understood. Given we can take this in any direction, what other dynamics do you think might be of interest?

fiatjaf11y ago

This was more a rant against the idea of a "social network" than a critique of your work. I'm sorry, I don't know what to say about your library. I imagine it could be useful for people that like this specific idea of social network (which seems to be almost everyone), but I don't see where exactly.

I hoped also that the fact that there was a comment attracted more people to the discussion about your library (and also my rant), because it seems a nice piece of software.

cliftoncOP11y ago

I started building this because I have a requirement at my current company, and wanted to understand the problem space before I figured out if there was anything out there I could just use ... Then I got hooked and just kept writing code ;) I originally used the Twissandra project for inspiration (huge thanks). Ultimately looking for feedback on how useful this is to anyone else, and ideally other contributors who can help flesh it out and get some client libraries for various platforms built.

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