Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid.
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creator of textlog:
Nice. Profile pages are much cleaner now.
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creator of textlog:
That actually sounds like a very good reasoned choice. Love it
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creator of textlog:
The rationale is clear. However, I have found it useful in other #socialmedianotesenter to follow arenas to have a total-post-count of the user on show as it easily enables me to avoid following people who favour quantity over quality. Even a posts-per-day number would do the same job.
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creator of textlogreplied to@hippoprofileenter to follow:
The numbers simply confuse, create bias and competition. Now you simply go to their profile, read their notes and decide by their content if that person is interesting to you. Having no place else to judge the focus necessarily turns to the content. That’s what matters most.
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creator of textlog:
It is, up to the point that you accidentally follow someone who posts 300 times a day and totally swamps your timeline :-)
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creator of textlogreplied to@hippoprofileenter to follow:
We’ll see, if it becomes an issue then we deal with it :) Plus when you unfollow their messages are removed from the /for-youtextlogenterA quieter place for your thoughts. tab.
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creator of textlogcontinued:
Also removed the relative timestamps and reply counts. We’re number-free. Numbers introduce unnecessary bias. Now the focus is on the content.
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creator of textlog:
No reply counts I could get used to, but no timestamps? Now we're in uncharted waters...
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creator of textlogreplied to@procyonprofileenter to followlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
Why do you need it? It’s just for stalking when someone was online and might bias to ignore older posts that could still be in /hottextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts. —not knowing the time also makes it easier to reply whenever you feel, less pressure. I don’t have time on my desktop either, hate time :p
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creator of textlog:
Hm idk, various things. If someone finds posts from months/years ago, timestamps put them in context (what "current events" are on their mind &c). Also hints if it's still fresh in mind when you reply, or if it'll be a blast from the past. (Arg for YYYYMMDD, perhaps not HHMMSS.)
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creator of textlogreplied to@procyonprofileenter to followlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
That’s what I’m hoping for! Resurrecting old interesting discussions based on their content. And also not ignoring posts that are not fresh, e.g responding to a “good morning” post. If you see “5h” you would ignore it. Now you don’t know. Let’s see how it goes for a few days.
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+1. The timestamp is critical context for a tweet. Microblogging is fundamentally a chronological log of messages. Removing timestamps from logs makes them unusable and inherently breaks the medium.
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creator of textlog:
Thank for keeping it cool @stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist
creator of textlog. Unfortunately this is a message that doesn’t add much to the conversation, but I still want to express my appreciation for avoiding things that leads to a strive for more, more, more.
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creator of textlog:
I love this.
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creator of textlog:
love this. makes me think what other “default/normal” features we can remove
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creator of textlog:
this became the catalyst to join! I can already see that this is the type of place I at least want to lurk.
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creator of textlog:
This is what convinced me to join.
There's no noise, there is only text.
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creator of textlog:
i like it
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creator of textlog:
congrats @stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist
creator of textlog more power to you, let's not build another "gamified" thing... no numbers to bump, in fact... you can think of it like "what makes the network LESS attractive to AI dissinformation campaigns", no value in selling you "a profile with thousands of followers".
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creator of textlog:
cool decision.. i like it :)
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creator of textlog:
I like the idea. I want to give it a try 🤔
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creator of textlog:
You’ve made it even more peaceful here. Thank you.
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creator of textlog:
As others have said, this made me join (textlog has been open in a tab for weeks now without my creating an account). I'm on the fence about timestamps but everything else is great. The lack of dopamine from not being able to like or get liked is both painful and incredibly freeing. Also, I LOVE the design of this site.
@sicilicaprofileenter to followreplied to@sodapopcanprofileenter to followMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.:
The lack of dopamine from not being able to like or get liked is both painful and incredibly freeing.
It feels impressively like actually just talking to people.
@unsayprofileenter to follow#minneapolisnotesenter to followreplied to@sicilicaprofileenter to follow:
The best analogy I have is it feels like a dinner party with no social contract to join or leave evergreen conversations.
Removing likes and timestamps made me rely on notifications as a proxy. As a result, I've turned them all off and am trying to write and meander without external forces.
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creator of textlog:
numbers
In a past life, when I was a statistician, I often though that the primary goal of statistics was to communicate numerical ideas without actually using any numbers. Numbers make people anxious, manufacture false certainty, project false confidence. They invariably appear to say something that's related to but not quite exactly the truth.
I love the experiment of just not having them. I also wonder about the experiment of: could something fuzzier, less fraught replace them?