Patreon-like Profile Page
I was just thinking... it would be nice if my own _profile_ acted like a "community" in terms of tools I can use, such as newsletters, subscriptions, etc.
When I think about my experience on reddit, many people make similar posts to multiple communities, and each of those posts shows up on their profile, and you essentially have to scroll past a smattering of posts to find the next "unique" post. That same problem is going to show up here. Instead, there could be unique sections (tabs?), and of course privacy controls, to show posts made to _your_ profile, vs posts/comments made to other communities.
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This is awesome
It's very similar to the idea I have about profiles, and how they should work like a community in itself. The duplicate filter is a smart idea, the 'new' feed already utilizes it, I should definitely implement it for the profile as well.
Thank you!
Any thoughts on how to handle potential spam? That was my main concern when initially thinking of offering newsletter to profiles as well.
It also solves a platform problem we have right now, which is everyone wants to create their own communities instead of posting in existing ones. I think the profile idea will solve this.
ooof... I just found another bug. I'm on dark mode, but when I edit a reply... the reply box looks like it's in "light mode", but with a hard-to-read grey foreground color.
Thanks! Actually I knew about this for a few weeks and was simply holding it off, praying no one would edit their comment in dark mode in the meantime hahahah
This forced me to fix it. Updated now, thanks.
There's kinda 2 trains of though in social media.
1. Communities/Subs with moderators, so that would be OddsRabbit, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.
2. Individuals who make posts. That would be Twitter, BlueSky, Patreon, Substack, etc.
The problems with 1 are
- post spam/duplication across a bunch of related communities.
- you need moderators, moderators can end up using their power to censor content, instead of trying to foster inclusivity.
The problem with 2 is that your "feed" is completely linear, and it might be difficult to find content creators that are sharing similar stuff.
Personally, I'd like to see OddsRabbit pivot to something closer to 2, but spend more time/energy solving the discoverability problem. How would you "group" things together? I have some ideas, but this reply is already getting pretty long.
Very thoughtful post, thank you.
Honestly my thinking on this has been evolving. My original vision was definitely #1, but recently I've been leaning towards the thinking that a hybrid system of sorts is the right approach. Though I haven't quite figured out how or what that looks like yet.
Please don't feel like you might be burdening me. Would definitely love your thoughts on this lol.
My chat and email [email protected] is always open also in case you want to send something there.
Huum to follow this idea, when posting a newsletter on profile to have an option to send it to community. So the post into the community would just be a "preview" or a forward post from profile. This kind of forward post "redirect"/ is shared with the original post. Ps: I'm not sure to be clear / understandable sorry ^^'