Software Engineer based in London
arborist.dev
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🐓 Mega
What's interesting with BeReal is it's probably the most gamified social media, yet it's one where you essentially cannot doomscroll. It kinda baffles me that BeReal is able to find a balance that still keeps it entertaining and capable of keeping interesting content without needing constant sustained interactions from both the creator and consumer sides, but I'm definitely not upset about it. BeReal's a really interesting case that has struck all the right chords of a social media, in my opinion.
👨💻 William Young
Good point on it being gamified - a rate-limited Skinner box experiment. I've also noticed that subreply doesn't allow responding with an emoji/like, forcing you to actually engage. I like that!
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😀 Tom
Does Hacker News count as social media?
👨💻 William Young
Depends on definition, but I would say yes. It is a medium for people to share ideas and discuss them.
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😀 Tom
Subreply is not addicting, so I pretty much only visit when I feel like sharing something, and then I see if anyone else has shared anything. There is no doomscrolling. I kind of like the "anonymity" of it, rather than it just being for friends. I suppose that's what Twitter was like, but I never used it and the UI didn't make sense to me. Subreply's UX doesn't make sense to some people, me included, but that's okay (re: how threads are displayed).
👨💻 William Young
This is something that really resonates with me. It's s paradoxical problem for someone making a social media of trying to make something that is healthy by not gamifying it, but at the same time generating a network effect by people returning frequently. A great example that has tried to find this balance is BeReal.
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🏒 Lucian Marin
Trending was showing the latest threads sorted by number of replies. Threads is doing the same thing, but you can see all of them in chronological order.
👨💻 William Young
Ooh thanks! I love how clean this site is.
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😀 Tom
Happy Subversary to me! 8 years!
👨💻 William Young
I had no idea it was this old! Happy sub-day
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👨💻 William Young
Ooh, the trending tab disappeared?
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🏒 Lucian Marin
Trending was showing the latest threads sorted by number of replies. Threads is doing the same thing, but you can see all of them in chronological order.
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Bhagya
How many chucks can a wood chuck can chuck if wood chuck can chuck wood?
👨💻 William Young
"about 700 pounds (320 kg) on a good day, with the wind at his back"
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🦅 Simo
What are you working on right now?
👨💻 William Young
A new way to do Product - having to pick up a lot of the other skills to bring a website to life!
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🤞🏽 Marcel Miranda
I guess I'm doing it too
👨💻 William Young
What are the thresholds to actually keep your name? Haha.
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👨💻 William Young
Hello, World!
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