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No comparison against Gemini 4 Argon?
Something similar at Qocial.com too
Maybe the stack behind it is down, like AWS or something
Maintaining/Asking for good conduct among educated people
vs
A crowded network of a mix of educated, spammy keyboard warriors is different.
On HN, we mostly have educated people, so with good conduct rules, they all behave well.
On social networks, you see many keyboard warriors and spammy people, where educated people get overshadowed.
- Singularity, Loneliness: we are already heading towards it.
/future - says hi.
- Bringing your filter is nice; I will add that.
- _ addictive_media: maybe some option you can turn on and off when it is addictive and when it is not, something like that?
No, I disagree. What I have seen is that
- Acquiring users for the hefty discount has led the platform to think they can recover from future sales.
- Assuming their buyers will consider them their long-term household shop.
- While new business with a new discount bumps in and the fight begins. We all know fights are ugly.
- Yup, local social first, since we lost that in the online game. Doing something similar on qocial.com
- Redirecting ad money towards users is like asking users to be vulnerable to get paid.
You just signed up to say that? Are you Elon Musk? Lol
I think Mastodon is trying to do what forums used to be back then.
There was no feed on Facebook in the first half of 2006; it was just a kind of scrapbook.
The feed was added in the second half, and that's what took off.
- Hell Yeah, 2000-2010 era :) best.
- Tons of forums coming from PHPBB, vBulletin, mybb etc.,
- Not sure how any social network can exploit users apart from filthy ads and spammy traffic.
- But I think a platform like Twitter is already taking great initiative in that, under Elon Musk.
The best one is imgur, which already exists and is dying slowly :(
For those, I think someone already tried building them, but eventually it will either end up adding videos soon and becoming Instagram, or a photo marketplace like Pexels, Freepik/Magnific, Unsplash, etc.
- Filters; very interesting, something like you can create a tab for like #tech and on tap all chronological posts about it from the network?
- Interesting; so see what you follow and cut the other crap.
- Mastodon is cool, but I'm not sure what its future is.
Facebook has several patents related to eye tracking and gaze detection.
You've probably already heard someone complaining about talking about shoes on WhatsApp and then seeing those ads on Facebook and Instagram.
- Interesting; see what we see on today's network, like Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok is not hidden settings but snooping from one platform to another, including what your eyes see and where.
Your eyes don't unlock your phone; they also unlock what you are seeing on your phone.
Your speech doesn't just enable verbal communication; it also sends a message to your phone about what you are discussing.
Many of these can only be avoided by avoiding social networks where such tech is used.
- No AI bots; agreed
- No social engineering; curious what this means here - you mean no social influencing on any topic?
- For freedom, the world always comes down to the jurisdiction and law of your country. If you violate the law, the platform needs to cut .
So,
- a closed social network, where you see what you follow.
- posts are usually chronological unless some posts are muted/promoted.
That's a very common thing; many social networks already have:
On Facebook/Twitter, you see what you add/follow.
Well, what I understand is that you mean - no selling of your content, no third-party SDK, and no sharing of your data.
What does the other thing include in privacy?
Posted by
kocial on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.
If someone has to create a social network today, what would you like to see in it?- TikTok/Instagram like engaging videos?- Twitter/Reddit like discussion panel- Your own public diary journal- or, Latest events happening across the world from your feed?Building one here - https://qocial.com and would love your feedback.
Posted by
kocial on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:01PM
from the mashable.com dept.
Posted by
kocial on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:56AM
from the shopify.com dept.
Can't you intercept the network request?