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Pieces is a social network with an elegant design aiming to avoid enshittification, with discussions on its open-source status and profit model.

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  • Some users question if the platform can avoid enshittification like Mastodon.
  • There is debate over whether the platform should be non-profit.
  • Concerns about inclusivity of nonhuman identities are raised.
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  • 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.

    by tillcarlos
  • 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.

    by kcoppock
  • Good work! I am hopeful for a social network that is not craving to increase engagement and going viral. I posted a sample but and created a profile.

    But when I went to the Docs tab in my profile, it says...

    Doc Not Found The doc "how-to-use-pieces" could not be found

    by annjose
  • 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.
    by danpalmer
  • I get it, but form follows finance — show me how piecesof.me sustains itself and I'll tell you what kind of promises they can actually make. Lots of naive optimism out there with these types of projects.
    by gavindo
  • - 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

    by vivzkestrel
  • 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.

    by dofm
  • 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.

    by catapart

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