natural219

Joined 16 years ago

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May 30
Decentralization wonk. Seeking alternatives to Twitter/Facebook.

http://decentralize.tech

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Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, sounds great. How do I contact you?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey. Love this posting man. I sent in an application :)
Comment · 1 year ago
"A glorified subreddit for HN readers..."

At some point, I wonder if `dang` would support this? It seems like a good idea. For more topic-specific higher volume news items.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is incredible.

119 million posts, x ~10MB per picture,

is like 1,200 petabytes? 1.2 exabytes?

Am I missing something here... this seems very impressive.

Comment · 1 year ago
Wow. This is amazing. Extremely practical to use, I'm glad I checked H.N. yesterday.
Comment · 2 years ago
Horribly, lol. I think 6-7 out of 10? I have no idea what these classifications mean though.
Comment · 2 years ago
AI moderators too would be an enormous boon if they could get that right.
Comment · 2 years ago
Funny. I just tried to post my yearly attempt to communicate with people on Reddit, which got taken down immediately by the auto-moderator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1c0nuy6/it_is_impos...

It's infinitely sad that there's no place to just connect with people on the internet anymore. My post got 6 comments and a DM within the first minute, before the post got taken down. These people could have been new friends.

I've been through this cycle so many times I have long given up on trying to post on the internet. Logging on to find people and share thoughts only to be met with this massive wall of context and janitorial standards. I gave up like five years ago.

This is to say that the whole debate between "social media causes anxiety" and our landscape of social media causes anxiety makes this debate way too coarse. Getting on the internet between 2005-2012 felt happy, free, and was just a wellspring of community and connection. Post-2013 it's been a nightmarish hellscape on every platform.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't think anyone is trying to fork Dwarf Fortress and sell it on a different platform.

Actually, even if they did, they would likely have proved the market to the founders earlier; maybe lighting a fire under their feet to monetize quicker. The current renaissance of DF via the Steam release could have happened five years earlier -- inspiring five more years' worth of other business-focused indie developers...

You catch the drift. I like the OP's system hah.

Comment · 3 years ago
Incredible map of PFAS hotspots in the article -- very notable applying the "is this just a population map?" test, specifically look at the West coast in comparison to the rest of the country. It seems dramatically lower out west.
Comment · 3 years ago
Seems like a good list, I enjoyed the comic explainer of stable diffusion and learned a thing. Thank you to the authors and a16z for publishing this :).
Comment · 3 years ago
That's the point lol. Hacker news guidelines clearly state... sigh whatever

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