Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by fossuser on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:31PM (#21548444)

I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases).

Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be fast.

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by chillacy on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:33PM (#21548469)

Low effort ascii art was a mainstay on digg back in the day, I think moderation is more key.

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by _chompsky on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:05PM (#21548765)

someone is attempting to build a curated internet for each other, check this out:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/get-kelvin

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by otalp on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:51PM (#21548636)

You can curate your reddit feed to include only text posts and links

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by zokier on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:50PM (#21548626)

Surely making text only instance (or network) of Mastodon wouldn't huge endeavor. Attracting people could be bigger challenge

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by yalogin on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:50PM (#21548627)

How will that be different from a messages or WhatsApp group?

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by esmi on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:50PM (#21548629)

SMS?

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