Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
I'm never joining another vc-backed social network whatever they promise.
70This was my main concern. What's the monetization strategy?
5Seriously... The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind... Not for a paycheck anyways
We're getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family
2So an RSS Reader (Like CommaFeed) and a Social Bookmarking like Postmarks?
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Other backers include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.WTF, no, this is worse in every way. So instead of being involved with the people and topics I choose, it's instead left up to an algorithm? Somehow even more opaque than usual because of AI involvement.
This isn't solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push content in front of people.
67This isn’t solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push
contentadvertisements in front of people.That looks better.
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Why would you give your new software the same name as an established and widely used software?
37Same goes for words in foreign languages. it just causes confusion. I like how eclipse went for “temurin” (anagram for runtime) for their OpenJDK distribution. no way to cause confusion.
7Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.
4Maven is a yiddish word for understanding, or something similar. There's a few things that have been named after it, but as it's in the tech space for this social non-network, it definitely has the potential to be confusing.
4They were exceptionally difficult to find to install the app. That alone will keep them from being successful. Add to that that the app is not particularly impressive... I'm not sure if their chances.
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Isn't this just Reddit with more steps?
25Lemmy. Just use Lemmy.
Why is this so hard, rest of the world?
Oh yeah, because there are no millions to be made here. /bangs head with hand
25Getting off social media surely is the best way to reduce stress.
12Or learn to use it better, turn of push notifications and treat it as an optional way to pass time rather than something you have to constantly check.
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Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers
otherwise known as literally every one of my accounts on any social network
12Ive followed you on Lemmy, checkmate
7Malicious compliance
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These people just need to stop. We don't need yet another social media service
8Isn't this just a personal website with a links page?
8.............. I just came back to using java for some projects, is this trying to tell me something ?
8Isn't that very similar to what TikTok does? Just with a different algorithm and maybe other content than just videos?
6TLDR: Serendipity
5Do words just not fucking mean anything anymore? What exactly does “maven” have to do with any of this? Is everyone treated like an expert at everything? Is that how it works?
The entire tech industry is tiring, bullshit, and I’m exhausted with all of it.
3This kind of website sounds kind of problematic and useless. The ability to follow a specific person's post is highly useful, and highly necessary oftentimes. If you want to reduce the friction that "Following" induces; you simply need to not disclose to the users how many people are following them, nor do you need to disclose how many followers a user has. Problems solved.
The same goes for Likes. Nobody but the sender of the like should know about that like. Instead of keeping counts for the recipients to obsess over; calculate a reasonable percentage of people who we can guess "like" the post algorithmically based on views of the post and clicked likes. I get that the feedback mechanism is necessary; but it should be a gentle one that simply encourages people to post what people like and will view. This percentage should not be used to rank a post above or below other posts, unless the user viewing the list asks for the list to be sorted or ranked as such.
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