ben85ts

potential ad free alternative https://userheist.com

Thanks for trying it! I commented on the gist with the bookmarklet version I'm using in chrome.

cool! just made one for the URL bar: https://gist.github.com/bsawyer/bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44...

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There's a tech group https://techimpactmakers.com/ with a couple startups in the slack workspace.

Abuse and illegal content is a huge worry of mine. Maintaining a moderation working group is a concern at scale for sure. My aim is to adopt a volunteer moderation program similar to reddit.

Decided to put this up after the awesome discussion here https://userheist.com

Haha I hope I don’t turn into one! It’s hard to get it all on a page and still be a little concise. Would love to answer any questions. There certainly are many options, for the ones you mentioned federated or decentralized I feel like the concept while really cool isn’t as accessible as just a website. Other options are also too niche. I think Facebook did a couple things well one of which was have a diverse user base.

Really great info, thanks for sharing. WT.social's model is almost exactly what I was thinking. Like you said, it's a different feature set from Facebook but it's great so see that the idea works for social networks.

Thank you for sharing the video is great!

I think the concept of decentralization is certainly appealing especially when it comes to trusting 1 or more other parties with personal information. I think encrypting data with only the parties you want to have access is extremely powerful. I might be wrong but as I understand it there is always an amount of trust whether it be in a blockchain or a single party. I understand that if the one party is compromised or decides to change their policies and sell your data etc. that it is a larger risk in that regard. On the other hand adopting a decentralized network takes a good amount of understanding and participation that might be lost on the average user. My hope is that, with a solid foundation, it would be possible to establish the initial policies to maintain and grow a network that was never owned by anyone e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content

Haha yeah I see what you mean. I was thinking more along the lines of never selling analytic data to third parties (something Facebook has capitalized on quite a bit). I think a lot of people see this as an invasion of privacy.

Wow, thank you I will check this out.

Awesome list! I hadn't heard of some of these. At a cursory glance it appears more of the same. I don't think I need a crypo currency when I post a picture of my dog to share with friends. I'll do more research on current alternatives but from what I've seen they don't seem to offer the basic functionality of Facebook. Maybe I'm over simplifying the concept but wasn't the idea of Facebook just a website to share stuff with friends and family?

Enhancing an existing alternative is interesting. Do you think it would be a matter of contributing to some of the current open source alternatives?

Drew them in figma

Sure, thanks for the suggestion!

That’s a really good idea!

Just separating different css transform animations across nested divs

Been a frontend dev for 10 years angular and react. You’re right it’s a little mix of functional state management and imperative structures for the game objects.

You’re absolutely right, would love any suggestions!