Comment by bangaroo

Comment by bangaroo 2 months ago

5 replies

Look, I appreciate the motivation, I love a passion project, and I'm happy you've clearly learned things and taken on new challenges, and I love that for you. I'm so happy you've had the opportunity to build a cool thing you like.

That said, "Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail" is a dream I wake up from in a cold sweat. It is a thinly-veiled threat. If you were trying to keep a cool website from me, and you accidentally said the name and I asked "what's that," if you said "oh, it's twitter/reddit but every post is a voicemail" you would successfully hide it from me. I cannot imagine a concept less compatible with the way I desire to experience the internet.

I'm happy for you, glad you built a cool thing, and I'm hopeful you see all the success you want from it. I shan't be going there.

enugu 2 months ago

Funny reply. But consider that making twitter posts audible and experiencing the full rage is fundamentally different from starting with audio first.

The reason I say that is because I have frequently seen the same people who rage in text based media, have a very civil, even productive conversations on video (possibly because the human element is more obvious).

There is an open field out there for better functioning discussion sites, maybe audio/video micro-conversations could play a role (auto-transcribed as text is easier to skim and focus on chosen parts).

  • cruano 2 months ago

    YouTube had video replies ages ago and it didn't take off.

    The trouble with audio is the barrier of entry. By the time you've wrote your script and managed to record it and edit it you might as well have made a video.

    • delecti 2 months ago

      As I remember it, the problem with video replies wasn't that they didn't take off, it's that they were mostly dominated by busty women making fairly low-effort content but whose thumbnails nonetheless drew clicks.

andrewstuart 2 months ago

>> I'm happy for you, glad you built a cool thing, and I'm hopeful you see all the success you want from it. I shan't be going there.

I appreciate the well wishes even if its not your cup of tea thanks!

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