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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by qbasic_forever on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:37PM (#33310520)
Yep, many people forget GitHub was trying to be Facebook but for coders from the very start. Back in late 2000s when FB was the hottest startup everyone was trying to do "the Facebook of X" knockoffs.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by MonkeyMalarky on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:23PM (#33311274)
Now we need a Facebook for sharing photos, videos, events and posts with our friends and adjacent social circles.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by genewitch on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:45AM (#33313013)
Fediverse on a curated homeserver is getting there. Or having importable killfiles
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by d0mine on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:26AM (#33314474) 

  - photos :: instagram
  - videos  :: tiktok, youtube
  - posts :: HN, reddit, dev.to, substack, mailing lists (yes, people still use those)
  - events :: messengers (telegram, whatsapp, etc), email.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:59AM (#33315571)
Missing from all these is a social network of "our friends and adjacent social circles". And perhaps, on top of it, a service aggregating output of all the ones you listed, so as a user, I can have (for a lack of better term) "people-first" mode of interaction. By this I mean, I want it to answer the question, "what have X been up to recently?", where X is a scope I can alter - from "all my friends" to "a particular group" to "particular friend".

I.e. what Facebook used to be, before the "great social network unbundling".

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by qbasic_forever on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:25AM (#33317050)
That was what Google plus wanted to be lol
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