PIECES – A social network for people.

- i see a 100 social networks advertised daily on reddit, HN etc- the biggest challenge you are facing is overcoming the double network effect- in order for any of em to take off, you need to get me and my friends and their friends and so on- one way to do this is to start a social network only for a small niche. could be anything. startups only! designers only etc and scale it up one category at a time to let the network effects come into the picture- that is how you build a social media with 1M+ users

The software is really well-made.I wonder why you change the links from the internal ones to this format https://piecesof.me/p/5b2w8x6sn2mwkdhppfusvqsf8z5h1t ?The writing is quite nice. I don't understand the "Docs". And I'd suggest to make it very easy to write my first post. The big editor is a bit scary.also here: https://piecesof.me/videos - where do I get prompted to upload my own video?Anyway, good luck! Let's see how long I can stick around.

The more I see of social media, the more I'm convinced that it's not really a fulfilling way to share and socialize on the internet. I've come to believe that anything that can platform every voice on the planet forces noise to drown out signal.Since you've actually started a social media site, I wonder if you have any insight on that? You say you believe in this project; what is it that you think is valuable about letting everyone talk to everyone, as opposed to exclusive and curated spaces for people that semi-self-select based on community interests and values, like forums? Separately, why do you think that removing organizations/brands and psuedo users is going to be the crux of the solution?Honestly looking to have my mind changed. But mostly just curious.

Best of luck!

I like the idea at a social level/product level, but at this point I don't think I'd use any social network that wasn't open at a protocol level in some way. ATProto/etc would be a great tech backbone for this, and would then let users self host their content, it would let orgs run their own views, it would let archivers archive content for posterity, it would open the door to possible federation in ways that suited the network in the future. Re-inventing all of that from scratch would be a terrible idea, and would lose focus.

A “social contract” that one party changes at will and then just announces the changes is not a contract (or social) in any meaningful sense. It’s just terms and conditions with a different name.If you want people to see it as a different thing, it needs to be a different thing.

Do you have any plans to support Ultra HDR images, on the Android app and/or other platforms? I did some browsing of the site and didn't see any examples (but that doesn't mean it's unsupported).I really enjoy that aspect for sharing photography on Instagram, and the support (at the client level, at least) is fairly straightforward (see https://developer.android.com/media/grow/ultra-hdr/display).The idea of the platform does sound great, and the application seems very polished from what I can tell so far.

Is this site inclusive of nonhuman identities? [0]It seems incredibly focused on "real humans" etc, which is (common...), but my real identity doesn't exist in the physical world.(There are also multiple of them thanks to DID, but that tends to require a significant rearchitecture to accommodate)[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin

I’ve seen a few posts about a “better social network” tried a few even thought about making my own.It seems hard to get them off the ground.I wonder if the answer to the enshittification of social networks is “no social network at all”.

Do you have some sort of detection for 'faceless accounts' ? Or are you moderating that by hand?I like the idea, but how do you actually enforce the 'no bots' model?