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Re:Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together? by soliton4 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:15AM (#33999785)
what is the point of creating yet another social network unless you have a key feature to make it distinct and valuable? if you just make a twitter / facebook clone for tech people all you are doing is dividing yourself from other people. that might be desireable for some people but i dont think its worth persueing in the long term.

i propose we create something that addresses existing problems and adds new features. a social network not based on yet another website, not based on yet another app with centralized ownership. blockchain is the new hype and promises new features and value. lets make a social network that exists entirely on a cryptoblock chain. i am not talking about creating yet another coin. this is entiely outside of the scope of monetary tokens. lets use the blockchain technology to host text and link posts in a distributed fashion. lets come up with a way to give an incentive to host a copy of the chain. and lets make it completely decentralized. then you have a social network worthy of hackers

Re:Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together? by mistermann on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:54AM (#34000413)
Blockchain would make it distinct, but would it provide unique value to users?

I certainly agree that we need some innovation in the space.

Re:Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together? by soliton4 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:58AM (#34001490)
the added value would be decentralized and cencorship resistant. you will probably also not see a lot of ads
Re:Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together? by mattdesl on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:47PM (#34003834)
The main value would be decentralization—the ability to carry your social graph across competing web and native clients, somewhat like RSS and Podcast apps. I wrote about it here:

https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/_F9vQAUeeBB9AJNwMNaE_G5kTcl1...