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Anyone remember app.net? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I feel like in a lot of ways, app.net was ahead of it's time. It's whole goal was to build a "social backbone". A social account and network of linked users. On top of that backbone you could build out services, and all your friends were already there. In a lot of ways, it did what the fediverse is trying to do with Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and activitypub in general.

I remember they started with a Twitter clone, but a clone for Vine, and Instagram soon appeared. It was wonderful while it existed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't say I'm familiar with it but it sounds kind of like what https://calckey.org/ is trying to do now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Calckey surprised me. There are many different sites out there right now which has me more favorable about the future than I've been recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some ways, I think what I am trying to do with communick is very similar. I am just being very careful to avoid the things that (IMHO) killed them.

  • they wanted to charge $99/year for access. From everyone. That is completely unrealistic. My basic access costs $10/year, and it can cost even less if you join as a group.

  • they went the YC route. Got money, and with it the responsibility to grow at all costs. I just want to build something that can be sustainable and that can give me the resources to keep working on interesting open source projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I took a peek, and it looks great!