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Comment · 11 months ago
Most Useful Use Cases

1.) Fan Coordination for Niche Interests: For obscure games or media (e.g., "XONOTIC"), high-RDV days can prompt spontaneous group sessions every few weeks, months, or even years, without needing calendars or servers.

2.) Media Reconsumption and Group Watches: Assign RDVs to movies, books, or videos (e.g., "SHREK_2001") for synchronized rewatches. RDVT adds timing for live streams or premieres, useful for content creators scheduling events at pseudorandom but shared times.

3.) Remembrance and Appreciation Days: Create special days for artists, events, or personal milestones (e.g., "YEAR_2000" or "HARRY_POTTER_SMOKES_WEED_Cdfkq2Nmb3c"). This could extend to historical events or personal tasks, providing a lightweight alternative to traditional calendars.

4.) Personal Reminder Systems: Integrate into apps or browser extensions to notify users about bookmarks or to-do items probabilistically, reducing notification fatigue. For instance, a threshold of RDV ≥ 2 ensures infrequent but timely prompts.

5.) Live Events and Scheduling: With RDVT, coordinate real-time activities like video calls or streams at exact UTC times on reminder days. This is especially useful for global teams or communities avoiding time zone conflicts.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yet another reminder to download your favorite videos before YouTube goes down again or they get deleted or privated, or whatever.
Comment · 1 year ago
$15B is a mind-blowing amount. I came here just to make sure it wasn't an M to B typo.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
My first day on Seven39 just concluded and I'm def coming back.
Comment · 1 year ago
You should perhaps rename it (because of the change I'm proposing) and make the time window either fully random each day or it should slide a bit each day so the whole Earth has equal ability to participate.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is actually mindblowing!
Comment · 2 years ago
Timezones are just so, so, so nasty. Why couldn't we just somehow make out shit function on UTC or something?
Comment · 2 years ago
IMO humanity should just do ASCII and call it a day. I'm not talking about viability of this, just my wishes.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don't know the resolution they're working with, but they should defo prioritize the MH370 potential crash area.
Comment · 2 years ago
Pretty sure CIA is the big brain which essentially controls the world.

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