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38 votes
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Is it time for a user growth campaign?
Take a look at the Tildes Statistics site. Couple things: 1, and most obvious: there has been a decline in users over the past few days for the first time that I'm aware of. 2: (I was going to...
Take a look at the Tildes Statistics site. Couple things:
1, and most obvious: there has been a decline in users over the past few days for the first time that I'm aware of.
2: (I was going to make this point before the user decline occurred but it's probably moot now) Due to the scaling of the Y-axis, it appears that there is healthy user growth in the site. But if you look at the numbers, we're talking about user growth of roughly 60 people over the past month.I know we want controlled growth, and I know we don't want to open it up to the masses. But we also want this site to succeed (i.e. provide interesting discourse and keep people coming back on a regular basis). I don't believe success can happen when growth is stagnant (or, declining!)
I don't think that the conversations are necessarily stagnant per se, in fact there's an impressive amount of thoughtful discussion relative to the size of the user base. But if a given topic is too niche (e.g. MLS football or MUDs, two of my interests), the odds of finding like-minded users to discuss with is obviously lower.
Is it time to consider some sort of growth campaign (one that is not reactionary a la the Reddit API changes) in order to infuse some new life into this awesome site?
37 votes -
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
50 votes -
How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
37 votes -
How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
80 votes -
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege
24 votes -
Down and to the right: Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
80 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks
21 votes -
Australia tells dating apps to improve safety standards to protect users from sexual violence
12 votes -
We're all living on r/MadeMeSmile's Internet Now
77 votes -
Steam's oldest user accounts turn 20, Valve celebrates with special digital badges
46 votes -
In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare
17 votes -
Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
36 votes -
Netflix adds nearly six million subscribers amid password sharing crackdown in Q2
51 votes -
User accountability and complicated technologies
I've been thinking about the arguments that are increasingly common when dealing with tech: "it's too complicated" and "I just want something that works". My father gifted a used computer to me...
I've been thinking about the arguments that are increasingly common when dealing with tech: "it's too complicated" and "I just want something that works".
My father gifted a used computer to me and my brother when we were kids. Ours to use, ours to take care. He would pay for the eventual screw up, but we had to walk several blocks carrying the tower to get assistance.
I messed up a lot over the years, mostly because I wanted to explore the little that I knew and learn more. I had some magazines that expected everything to go well if instructions were followed and no access to internet forums to ask for help. I was limited to just one language as well. I had to find a way out. Nowadays things are much more simple and really just work, until they don't and I can't really fix them.
In this world, what people can do is complain. Or offer a report of how things went wrong and wait patiently. It's not even that common for people in general to just go back to the version that worked. There's no version, only the app we use or can't use and it's not our responsibility any kind of maintenance.
I have to confess I was going in another direction when I started, but things are really limited from a consumer's point of view. In part, it's our fault for not wanting to deal with the burden of knowledge, it inevitably takes the control away from us, but big tech really approves and incentives this behavior.
As with so many problems I see in the world, education is the solution. And educating ourselves might be the only dependable option.
10 votes -
Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline
121 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg announces that there has been over five million signups to Meta's Threads in the first four hours
61 votes -
20,000 Tildidgeridoos!
See for yourself! It has been exactly 4 years, 3 months and 2 days since Tildes hit 10,000 users! Congratulations everyone!
228 votes -
How do you feel about the ongoing Reddit migration to Tildes?
Are you worried about the quality of Tildes going down? Are you excited for the user base to grow? As a new member, I’m Interested in reading your thoughts and opinions.
149 votes -
Waiting period for invite codes?
Not sure if this is already a feature, but I think in keeping with Tildes's philosophy of letting the platform grow (to whatever extent that it may) sustainably, there should be a waiting period...
Not sure if this is already a feature, but I think in keeping with Tildes's philosophy of letting the platform grow (to whatever extent that it may) sustainably, there should be a waiting period of a couple days to a couple weeks between when a new user joins and when they can generate invite codes. This to me seems like an effective way of preventing viral growth and allowing the community to recalibrate or "get a grip on itself" after any new influx of users.
16 votes -
Netflix subscriptions jump as US password-sharing crackdown begins
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Do you think this place will get big on/after July 1st?
I know myself and many others are coming here from Reddit but I'm curious what the Tildes community who've been here a while think. I like this place. It reminds me of Reddit in 2011.
66 votes -
In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
9 votes -
Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast
33 votes -
As pay TV subscribers decline faster, pressure builds for streaming profits
8 votes -
Celebrities say they’re quitting Twitter as Elon Musk takes over: “I’m out of here”
10 votes -
Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show
17 votes -
Telegram celebrates 700M users and introduces Telegram Premium
7 votes -
Netflix customers canceling service increasingly includes long-term subscribers
23 votes -
Netflix stock price drops 35%, posting biggest fall since 2004
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Blocking users
I'd like to block certain users to keep the pro-nft content off my retinas and l'm on a browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin. What can l do to accomplish this?
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Why do we use Tildes?
I'm not sure if this goes here or in ~talk, so if it needs moved, that's fine. I've been thinking a lot, lately, about why I use Tildes. As noted in my bio, I left Tildes for an extended period of...
I'm not sure if this goes here or in ~talk, so if it needs moved, that's fine.
I've been thinking a lot, lately, about why I use Tildes.
As noted in my bio, I left Tildes for an extended period of time, after getting embroiled in some heavy arguments that, in the scheme of things, didn't matter. Such arguments consistently make me feel worse; I get into them on this account, too, though I do try to use uBlock Origin and the tag filter to keep out of the threads that will most obviously affect me.
But I can't seem to leave Tildes entirely. Even when I log out on all devices, I keep opening the site. Even when I had no account, I kept typing
til<Enter>
in the address bar and coming back.So, why?
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First, Tildes is what I love about the web. It's complete but uncluttered; it's featureful but not bloated; it uses client-side interactivity to improve the experience but does not break or reimpement default browser functionality. Overall, it's a good piece of software, designed to create, catalog, and discuss documents, like
GodTim Berners-Lee intended.Second, and more important, Tildes is a community. It's a community like my college dorm was a community; I know people here, and while I definitely don't like all of them, I recognize the personalities behind the names. Leaving, and diving mostly back into the world of Twitter and Mastodon where conversations are short, ephemeral, and deeply restricted, feels like losing relationships, no matter how damaging and negative some of those relationships are.
I don't know if gaining this understanding means I'll be able to - or even want to - drop the site again. We'll see. But I would love to know why y'all use it. Is it a community for you, too?
43 votes -
Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
15 votes -
TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
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After blocking a user on uBlockOrigin I can't see the number of votes
After using this method to block a user on here I can no longer see the number of votes a comment or a post gets. I can see it fine when I switch to a browser without uBlockOrigin, but not on...
After using this method to block a user on here I can no longer see the number of votes a comment or a post gets.
I can see it fine when I switch to a browser without uBlockOrigin, but not on FireFox.
Any reason for this?
Edit: I also can't see anyone's username in the comments.
10 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
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Many people here believe that social media can't be both large and have good discussion because the human brain isn't made to interact with large numbers of people. What do you think of this?
p.s the difference between this post and this post is that I want to ask questions and get people's opinions and answers in this one more. Here's a few examples, last one being an argument between...
p.s the difference between this post and this post is that I want to ask questions and get people's opinions and answers in this one more.
Here's a few examples, last one being an argument between a few people where most people, including Deimos agreed with this idea.
Personally, I find this idea almost terrifying because it implies social media in it's current form cannot be fixed by changing or expanding human or automoderation, nor fact checking, because moderation can't reasonably occur at scale at all.
However, I have 2 questions:
1: If large social media platforms can't really be moderated what should we do to them? The implied solution is balkanizing social media until the 'platforms' are extended social circles which can be moderated and have good discussion (or more practically, integrate them to a federated service like mastodon which is made to be split like this or something like discord.) An alternative I've heard is to redo the early 2000s and have fanforums for everything to avoid context collapse and have something gluing the site's users together (something I am far more supportive of) or a reason for invite systems and stricter control of who enters your site but doesn't explain the idea that once your site hits a certain usercount, it will inevitably worsen and that is something that stems from human nature (Dunbar's number aka the max amount of friends you could theoretically have) and so is inevitable, almost natural.
2: Why is moderation impossible to do well at large scales? While I think moderation, which I think is analogous to law enforcement or legal systems (though the many reddit mods here can definitely give their opinions on that) definitely likely isn't the kind of thing that can be done at a profit, I'm not entirely sure why would it be wholly impossible. A reason I've heard is that moderators need to understand the communities they're moderating, but I'm not sure why wouldn't that be a requirement, or why would adding more mods make that worse (mods disagreeing with eachother while moderating seems quite likely but unrelated to this.)
20 votes -
Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth
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Netflix shares fall after lower-than-expected earnings and appointment of co-CEO, weak guidance for subscriber growth in third quarter
11 votes -
Dear user
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What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out
16 votes -
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
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Is there any way to filter out users?
I was reading this thread and thinking about my experience with political stuff on Tildes. It seems that issues proposed by the thread often have more to do with individuals than a topic or group....
I was reading this thread and thinking about my experience with political stuff on Tildes. It seems that issues proposed by the thread often have more to do with individuals than a topic or group.
It's a little less obvious now for two reasons 1) usernames are only visible within "link threads" 2) you can only see a limited sections of posts on other peoples profiles.
I'm not knocking those choices I just want to point out that it makes it less easy to general sense of who is posting in a way that you find to be lacking substance or inflammatory.
I would be happy if I could rely on filtering groups from the home page but unfortunately it doesn't take much guile for an individual to politicize virtually any topic that arises in a way that triggers distracting or unpleasant emotions around a discussion.
My questions are:
- Do we have that option to filter out users right now?
- Would that option make your experience on Tildes better?
- Would it be useful to filter a users posts while choosing to allow their comments on other threads?
11 votes -
Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices
15 votes -
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield shares his experience managing growing user demand during the COVID-19 pandemic
@stewart: My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here's what it's been like.
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An active user count
I would like a current active user Count for the whole site. I find them very useful for knowing when people are on I’m not a fan of group specific ones but one that said how many people where...
I would like a current active user Count for the whole site. I find them very useful for knowing when people are on I’m not a fan of group specific ones but one that said how many people where currently on I would like
19 votes -
Netflix stock drops more than 10% as Q2 earnings show huge decline in new subscribers, including a loss domestically
15 votes -
In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
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Thoughts about novelty accounts on Tildes
Hi folks, The question is pretty straightforward. How would people feel if we had our own resident “shiitywatercolour” or another equivalent?
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10,000 Tilders!
Right now, there are 10,000 subscribers to ~tildes.official, meaning that Tildes as a whole must have more than 10,000 users. We've passed a milestone! Congratulations to @Deimos for making this...
Right now, there are 10,000 subscribers to ~tildes.official, meaning that Tildes as a whole must have more than 10,000 users.
We've passed a milestone!
Congratulations to @Deimos for making this happen.
117 votes