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> Software for chatting on the Internet should be small and fun.

Small and fun is the magic here. There's immense product insight in building a product experience that feels really small, intimate. It's the counterbalance to the unwieldy scale of Big Tech.

We're in the natural cycle of things, I'm just saying I seem to really get the feeling "the future is small", if that makes sense. It's quite stressful to navigate the entire planet's information and inventory.




I feel the same way. I don’t feel the need or desire to be connected to every single person on earth through some app. I left almost all social platforms a couple years ago (except HN).

I got into nostr and feel like it’s almost exactly what I want from social media. Just a reverse chronological feed of the people I follow.


what is this obsession with products being "fun" to use?

you know what makes chatting fun? the people I'm chatting with.

you know what makes chatting not fun? being impeded from chatting with the fun people.

a chat program that has fun people and always works is the most fun to use!


i agree, it's fun because of the people. a product is "not fun" when it impedes on those personal connections. like the obvious thing of injecting ads everywhere, a product doing that, is not fun in my view. it's infuriating




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