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We accidentally recreated old Facebook

23 pointsby amr_shawkylast Sunday at 3:41 PM12 commentsview on HN

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brenschlusstoday at 8:44 PM

Ah, see, you didn’t recreate it just because of the interface; you recreated because it’s currently a high-trust social environment, because your friends and family are using it, because they know who you are. Old Facebook was high-trust because we all were naive and trusting.

Perhaps the question is how to continue to create high-trust environments from a social perspective, not an interface perspective.

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mrhottakestoday at 8:46 PM

Old Facebook worked out great, so this should be a positive force for good as well.

throwway120385today at 8:28 PM

Is your pricing enough for the service to make money without requiring VC funding? And are you going to be able to maintain business focus on your core use cases throughout the next 5-10 years? I think it's a tough sell for me and my friends to use something like old Facebook when we know the rest of that story.

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nancyminusonetoday at 8:43 PM

>screenshot with Minon profile pic

My god, they really did recreate Facebook

dudu24today at 8:35 PM

"we realized that this feels a lot like old FB - no ads, no ‘discover’, no algorithms. Just posts from people you know."

holy chatgpt

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smokedetector1today at 8:11 PM

Not trying to be a hater, but I'm not sure if I would download an app just for this, and I'm almost 100% sure my non-tech friends and family wouldn't.

Is there a way to make this an add-on to another product that people are already on? Or a site that pulls data from another product?

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drcongotoday at 7:49 PM

> You don’t really remember the exact month something happened, but you always remember who was there.

This is such a weird premise, I can already search photos by people on my phone or Mac, but that also lets me find photos without people in.

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