[HN Gopher] Show HN: This is what social media could be
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       Show HN: This is what social media could be
        
       I made what I believe is a joyful slow social media. Would love to
       know what you think!
        
       Author : terencehf
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-10-08 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | wordpad25 wrote:
       | Need some at a glance way to read the posts.
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       | Manually clicking every flower to see what it says is a nightmare
       | when on a typically social network it takes scrolling dozens of
       | posts before finding something interesting you would read or
       | engage with.
        
       | nagonago wrote:
       | Interesting idea. I've actually seen similar things over the
       | years, even as early as 2006. Unfortunately these cute little
       | kinds of things usually generate a bit of buzz but then die out.
       | Hope it grows well for you though.
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       | PS: not a fan of the clickbaity title. If it wasn't a Show HN I
       | would have ignored it. A better title might be just what you put
       | in the description, "A joyful slow social media", for example.
        
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       | pfisherman wrote:
       | Reduce the friction for people to try it out. It looks like it
       | could be interesting, but the account creation - in particular
       | asking for my email - to do anything is enough friction that I
       | would rather just close the window and never revisit.
        
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       | 29athrowaway wrote:
       | So, like FarmVille then.
        
       | owenpalmer wrote:
       | What a cool concept! My friend and I created something similar at
       | a 24 hour hackathon. Users were players who could walk around on
       | a multiplayer 2d map, and you could leave comment blocks in the
       | physical space. The comments were essentially nodes that could
       | reference a specific portion of text from another comment, which
       | reduced the ambiguity of what the responder agreed or disagreed
       | with. Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting
       | :)
        
       | macintosh-hd wrote:
       | This is really cool. The volume bar doesn't work on safari for
       | iPhone though. Always the same volume if not muted.
       | 
       | I guess a way to scale this could be different gardens for
       | different topics if the primary one starts getting too crowded?
        
       | wx30 wrote:
       | I'm not creating an account to view discussions.
        
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       | k1ns wrote:
       | Really neat idea!
        
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