by brenschluss
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- Ah, see, you didn’t recreate it just because of the interface; you recreated because it’s currently a high-trust social environment, because your friends and family are using it, because they know who you are. Old Facebook was high-trust because we all were naive and trusting.
Perhaps the question is how to continue to create high-trust environments from a social perspective, not an interface perspective.
by danielrhodes
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- The reason Facebook is where it is now is that when it was novel there was a lot of engagement. But as the novelty wore off, it became clear that your friends were not going to be able to produce the amount of interesting content you’d need to stay engaged. Most people probably don’t have enough friends on FB making the problem worse. In addition, Facebook’s privacy model requiring a double opt-in friendship makes it hard to add more friends.
So they started to loosen things: you can follow others, posts can be public, your feed becomes a mix of posts in your network and friends posts, etc. Now it is resembling Reddit. Numbers go up!
That is to say: these pure friend social networks start off with the right intentions. But with a similar product and incentives, you’ll end up right around where Facebook is now. If you want a different outcome, you must start from a different place.
by tim-projects
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- As a none American I point out that WhatsApp groups have functionally replaced old Facebook for a long time.
by throwway120385
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- Is your pricing enough for the service to make money without requiring VC funding? And are you going to be able to maintain business focus on your core use cases throughout the next 5-10 years? I think it's a tough sell for me and my friends to use something like old Facebook when we know the rest of that story.
by mattbrewsbytes
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- I think there's merit in a privacy first, no ads, no global/viral content app/service like this; there have been a lot of threads here on HN with related sentiment. I think the challenge is more a business problem - how do you pull users in when people may be scattered across various platforms? Are you finding that a single user purchasing a $2/mo plan pulls in additional users?
- I think this is cool! Maybe not your focus, but is there a place for using AI to help figure out who to send photos to / which pockets to send to?
by smokedetector1
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- Not trying to be a hater, but I'm not sure if I would download an app just for this, and I'm almost 100% sure my non-tech friends and family wouldn't.
Is there a way to make this an add-on to another product that people are already on? Or a site that pulls data from another product?
by mrhottakes
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- Old Facebook worked out great, so this should be a positive force for good as well.
- I dunno how to tell you this but I think it looks and functions like facebook because the model you vibe coded with was probably trained on old facebook
by nancyminusone
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- >screenshot with Minon profile pic
My god, they really did recreate Facebook
by rambambram
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- What about RSS and feed readers? Where you also can read posts from the domains you think you know.
by bobtheowl2
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- Was does the 'inherited' toggle on the main screen imply?
- > You don’t really remember the exact month something happened, but you always remember who was there.
This is such a weird premise, I can already search photos by people on my phone or Mac, but that also lets me find photos without people in.
by LightBug1
1 subcomments
- Drop the "Pic". Just "Pocket". It's cleaner.
- "we realized that this feels a lot like old FB - no ads, no ‘discover’, no algorithms. Just posts from people you know."
holy chatgpt
by 0xbadcafebee
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- > old FB was immensely popular
So were heroin and cocaine, which were sold commercially for 25 and 40 years, respectively
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