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a quick sketch for a social network
Dec. 29th, 2018 08:15 amThis is just a thought experiment, with no consideration as to e.g. feasibility.
Imagine your usual setup, where you can subscribe to people and tags, and you can post whatever and re share them (dependent on restrictions set by the originator.) You can like things, &c.
The gimmick is that the site updates only once a day.
If you go into Recent View, you'll see everything posted during the last update window in a random order, with multiple reblogs of the same thing treated as one item (unless you've seen that exact version before, in which case you'll skip it; or people are adding modifications/comments, in which case they'll appear together.)
You can also read Archive View. The amount of likes something gets can impact what order you read Archive View of a user or tag, but you can't like from there. I don't know whether you should be able to reblog from there or how posts should be aggregated together - most of the obvious ways of answering that seem to be degenerate in some way - but the goal would be something that doesn't produce perverse incentives or let things compound on themselves.
Imagine your usual setup, where you can subscribe to people and tags, and you can post whatever and re share them (dependent on restrictions set by the originator.) You can like things, &c.
The gimmick is that the site updates only once a day.
If you go into Recent View, you'll see everything posted during the last update window in a random order, with multiple reblogs of the same thing treated as one item (unless you've seen that exact version before, in which case you'll skip it; or people are adding modifications/comments, in which case they'll appear together.)
You can also read Archive View. The amount of likes something gets can impact what order you read Archive View of a user or tag, but you can't like from there. I don't know whether you should be able to reblog from there or how posts should be aggregated together - most of the obvious ways of answering that seem to be degenerate in some way - but the goal would be something that doesn't produce perverse incentives or let things compound on themselves.
Formerly unnamed worldbuilding project
Dec. 13th, 2018 08:00 pmis now "Abolished Aeon" (or "Abolished Æon," if you want to be æsthetic.) The secret history of our world, until fell time magics meant that it wasn't!
(Also following, of course, the naming convention that brought you "Forgotten Realms" or "Lost Lands.")
(Also following, of course, the naming convention that brought you "Forgotten Realms" or "Lost Lands.")
Hello, Dreamworld
Dec. 7th, 2018 04:34 pmIn 2010 I joined an improbably infamous epistemology forum founded by an apocalypse cult. The community built around this fled from about five or six platforms, and I am joining Dreamwidth so that I can stay in touch with the fork that has the least number of Nazis in it, if the current platform stops existing or functioning (or even if it doesn't, depending on how much I like this platform and who joins it.)
Historically I have posted about politics (more than I would like on reflection), meaningless RPG stuff (less than I would like on reflection), and whatever other, smarter people near me have been talking about (about as much as I would like on reflection.) If I do post here in any meaningful way, it is likely that I will continue to do so.
From the little experience I have of this platform, it seems much more Web 1.5 than where we were previously - not coincidentally, since it is a Livejournal clone. This seems encouraging to me - if I were designing a social network from scratch I would probably make it text-only (as paradoxical as that seems, given what prompted the likelihood of a Tumblr exodus.) But we shall see!
Historically I have posted about politics (more than I would like on reflection), meaningless RPG stuff (less than I would like on reflection), and whatever other, smarter people near me have been talking about (about as much as I would like on reflection.) If I do post here in any meaningful way, it is likely that I will continue to do so.
From the little experience I have of this platform, it seems much more Web 1.5 than where we were previously - not coincidentally, since it is a Livejournal clone. This seems encouraging to me - if I were designing a social network from scratch I would probably make it text-only (as paradoxical as that seems, given what prompted the likelihood of a Tumblr exodus.) But we shall see!
