HACKER Q&A
📣 asim

Is there any interest in building a private community platform?


My brain is selectively looking at topics and threads that are targeting social media addiction, twitter, etc. Ultimately I think these things are not going away but every decade we see a rebalancing as we start to move to new behaviours and new platforms. But that doesn't mean the old ones leave our psyche. If anything they become a staple of our daily lives. I want to try break away from some of this. I find Twitter useful but only when following a small subset of users. I think moving to something private with people you know might be a better alternative.

If it's of interest let me know. I'd really like to build it with people.


  👤 eimrine Accepted Answer ✓
Most of private services on Internets are just worse version of email.

Most of public services on Internets are just worse version of web forums.

Are you seriously thinking you are able to enworsen Twitter? Why do you need email, considering that a random email account created in '20s is going to live significantly less than typical email account from '00s?


👤 mnky9800n
> I would like to make a new CRUD app that does social media better then ever before. Do you?

Tbh I don't see anything taking over discord anytime soon.


👤 rapnie
https://freenet.org are building one right now.

👤 LewisVerstappen
So what’s the difference between this compared to discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, etc