alt Hacker News/dev/null: social network for developers
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It would be nice if the website had more information about the platform before you create an account.
Thank you, but no. I'll stick with /dev/tty0 . It's federated.
Social media site for devs getting hug-of-death'd by HN... the irony!
I have a petty complaint: if you name your social network after a core Unix concept, then why make your users login exclusively through a Microsoft subsidiary?
I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!
Seems to be down...
What does it use? masto or hand-crafted stuff?
Y.a.t.c (yet another twitter clone). Except for theming it brings nothing new to the social media space. I also dont think sending my tweets to a null device will do much for development. Ill put my bets on Bsky or Mastodon here.
Your posts have to be approved? Odd way to run a social network imo.
> Failed to open page
I'm guessing that wasn't expected result.
/tmp/social would have been better I think. dev = device, doesn’t make sense.
> Everyone here signed in with GitHub.
ugh.
Shouldn't that domain be dev-null.social instead of 'shell'? Dorks.
> Computah... build me a social network in PHP. Import the user's profile from GitHub, they shouldn't have to fill anything in. No likes, reposts or algorithms. Add a catchy slogan at the home page. Make no mistakes!
it's fully open source (https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls) and received over 200 PRs in less than 48 hours
Why do all these guys have "Soy Face" when you take their pictures?
symlinked in.
Very good idea
This is interesting: a. Developers on average are probably low on E trait in the Big Five b. Most users in the online developer communities (at least the ones who will be doing the "social" part, per the standard 1% rule of social platforms) loathe LinkedIn-style stuff, being asked to log in or provide PII. c. Most "social" services devs regularly use are for technical/utility stuff (GH, SO, subreddits) more than the social aspect.
If a, b and c are true, then this site is reinventing HN/proggit with forced GitHub login on top. NGMI.
conceptually, just sounds like a place you go when you don't want anyone to hear, see or think about you.
Using GH as the only way to associate identity is a bit evil
Devs need to be around actual humans in-person more, not less.
I can't see any of the content unless I sign in.
I don't know if I want to sign in, because I can't see any of the content.
> No likes. No reposts. No algorithm. Everything else goes to /dev/null.
*Closes tab
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> follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.
Isn't that Twitter?
Errant thought - I kind of hope that the actual social network for developers of the not so distant future looks more like a bunch of us separately building bespoke applications to serve files to each other.
> Dave: "Bot, add a folder to my personal data store with the pictures I took this weekend and share it with everyone in my poker group"
> Sally: "I see that I've gotten an email from Dave with a magic link conveying access to something. Bot, use this link to negotiate a key exchange with whatever weird app Dave cobbled together (ask his bot if you need help) and then log into my VPS and add a tab to my personal webapp to display the content he has shared."
That might be overly optimistic, but it doesn't feel that far off. It's kind of what Tim Berners-Lee build https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_project for right?