jillianschuller
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah look, they probably will be, at the start. It's tough to move away from FB, especially when it's designed to keep you there.
When I deleted FB from my phone, I looked around, and there really wasn't any alternative social media platform that didn't have the same setup - ads, feeds, notifications.
I really just wanted to put an alternative out there, so people could find something else if they're in my situation.
Sundayy isn't just challenging FB, but it's challenging the unconscious association between "social media" and "endless feeds", "ad revenue model", and "hijacking notifications".
I long for a day when social media isn't rooted in any of those things.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's good to see more write-ups like this. In my experience see-sawing between different ways of managing social media use, all of the suggestions out there are really just mitigation (turn on iOS Screen Time), or full blown abstinence (get off the apps).
These suggestions are targeted at social media as it currently is, with never ending feeds and attention sucking notifications. It's time to start talking about, and building, social media as it should be.
At the end of last year I spent most of my time thinking about what social media would look like if it was designed to be used less, and in a way that would add value to people.
For me, that meant intentional written reflections, shared with a small circle of close friends and family. To keep me from scrolling, there would be no feed. To keep me from checking my phone, content would rarely be surfaced.
This ended up becoming Sundayy, a mindful social network that you can only check once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app
Each day you're prompted to slow down and reflect, but there is no feed of reflections. They're all kept secret, for now. At the end of the week, on Sunday, reflections are revealed. It's a more intimate insight into how people close to you lived their week - day by day and in their own words.
We should definitely bring more awareness to monitoring screen time and curating feeds, but we should also question whether we should have to do any of that at all.
Comment · 5 years ago
> We need to start talking about how to configure Screen Time on iOS, or how to use Facebook's built-in tools to hide content you don't want to see. We also need to encourage people to take control of their feeds, muting users and topics who draw them into unproductive discussions.
This is going to make a world of difference the first time people try it. I started monitoring screen time/configuring notifications about a year ago, and made me feel a lot better about the time I spent on my phone.
But, all of this assumes that social media should (and will) stay the same as it currently is with addictive never ending feeds and endless notifications.
At the end of last year I sat down thought of what social media could look like if it was designed to be used less, and in a way that would add value to people.
For me, that looked like intentional written reflections, shared with a small circle of close friends and family. To keep me from scrolling, there would be no feed. To keep me from checking my phone, content would rarely be surfaced.
This ended up becoming Sundayy, a mindful social network that you can only check once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app
Each day you're prompted to slow down and reflect, but there is no feed of reflections. They're all kept secret, for now. At the end of the week, on Sunday, reflections are revealed. It's a more intimate insight into how people close to you lived their week - day by day and in their own words.
We should definitely bring more awareness to monitoring screen time and curating feeds, but we should also question whether we should have to do any of that at all :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Couldn't agree more re "the feed". I ditched social media, then found myself back there every now and again to check in on friends - very hard not to get sucked back into "the feed" each time.
Eventually, I signed off of FB & IG, and built a minimalist social network with no feeds, designed to be checked once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app/
Feel free to give it a go :)
Comment · 5 years ago
100% agree. Our intent is to be far more intentional, personal, and less attention hijacky than FB. Yes, that intention would go out the window if we did what they did re user data.
We've amended the privacy policy by adding this statement to make things far more explicit;
Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.
Comment · 5 years ago
Appreciate the feedback here. Was a legal template for the MVP (as you hinted at above), and not our intention to leave any uncertainty re data privacy.
We've amended the policy, and added this statement so things are clear.
Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.
Comment · 5 years ago
We have thought about monetizing down the line, but on principle I’m completely opposed to any model re ads/user data. We’d treat it like a tool you pay a one off price for.
Data privacy is something we can be more explicit about (thank you for highlighting this - will work on it). Re developers, it’s just my husband and I at the moment, and we’re just building it because we want it to exist.
If you want to email me any questions/concerns, I’m [email protected] :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Web version too, my hubby linked just above. Android coming in the next week or so.
Everyone you are buddies with can see your reflections, and you can see theirs. It’s best for family and close friends :)
It’s all signal, no noise. Sundayy is the only social network I use now. Removed all the others from my phone :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Funny you should ask as we were just talking about building this!
We are thinking that on Sunday when reading others reflections, you’ll be able to view “your story”, which will be that full history (currently you can see your reflections too, but just for the week).
Glad to hear you’ve signed up! We will commit to having this built before this Sunday so you can use it going forward :P
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for the kind words!
That is a very good idea re emailing the weekly update. Ironically we started with it being email based, then switched to the in app “buddies” (addable via a buddy code). Switched because people didn’t have an immediate email list, but definitely want to add this back in!
Thank you for the feedback, if you give Sundayy a go please let me know what you think - [email protected] :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey all,
A year ago I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I didn’t like the attention hijacking, or the never-ending feed surfing, or how they made me feel.
Looked around for a more minimalist platform I could use to stay connected to family and friends. Couldn’t find one, so started building one.
Sundayy is a social network centered around mindful reflection. It is designed to be checked just once a week, on Sunday.
Mon - Sat: You’re prompted to slow down, reflect, and write about what the day has brought you. Once you reflect, that’s it. Reflections are kept secret. There are no feeds to check.
Sunday: Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week as they lived it; day by day, in their own words.
My husband and I have been building Sundayy together while using it with close family and friends. Has become a nice ritual to read reflections over a tea on Sunday morning, then call family/friends from there.
On the topic of alcohol, FASD is a massive concern, but it's known that it's correlated to how much you drink and how frequently you drink (enjoying a glass of wine once a month is very different than binge drinking multiple times throughout your pregnancy).
The thing is, researchers aren't getting pregnant women different levels of hammered, and then assessing how their babies turn out (unethical much), so they're left to infer based on reported behaviors. Hence the unreliability of the data, and the "no amount is proven safe" mantra. Maybe it's the same with this recommendation?
The other thing not factored into inferred results is other associated behaviors. I'd bet that statistically, women that are binge drinking through pregnancy are more likely to also be taking hard drugs than their non-binge drinking counterparts. So is alcohol fully to blame here?
I'm not here advocating for pregnant women and drinking. But it'd be nice to have the data and evidence behind these risks, so that people can be empowered to make their own decisions.
I've seen so many women on forums stressing over a glass of wine they had at christmas, or the time they ate a cold cut without realizing. Needless stress that could be minimized if pregnant people weren't advised as if they're children.