It compiles RSS feeds and YouTube, Twitter, etc into a dashboard-like view rather than a crowded timeline. No notifications, no algorithm. Just a tool for a human. Easy to “move into the periphery”. Very calm, even when I’m following 100s of people.
I see Calm's purpose seems to extend far beyond smartphone apps and consumer technology, but I was hoping more people would create "anti-apps" when I created mine, and it it seems like Calm is doing a better job than me of pushing for such things.
https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/android-app-err-anti-a...
I am on the fence about notifications though. They can be very useful for the user. I am planning to add notifications, but probably all off by default, and the user decides very granularly what they want on. Does it seem the right approach? I would appreciate any opinion
Just trying to sort out how to make it work, make it look.
The past 15 years of social media has been a terrible experiment in attention-driven business models.
I’d like to think I’m helping buck this trend with my current project - a subscription based social network called Thread - https://get.thread-app.com
[0]: for anyone interested in looking its at https://www.kickscondor.com/
[1]: I am not in any way shape or form affiliated with the author, just very impressed!
> The unusual name of the wine region dates back to a 12th-century tale of a German bishop traveling to the Vatican for a meeting with the pope. The bishop sent a prelate ahead of him to survey the villages along the route for the best wines. The 'wine scout' had instructions to write 'Est' (Latin for 'There is') on the door or on the wall of the inns he visited when he was particularly impressed with the quality of the wine they served so the bishop following on his trail would have known in advance where to make a stop. At a Montefiascone inn, the prelate was reportedly so overwhelmed with the local wine that he wrote Est! Est!! Est!!! on the door.
Building requires the old gnome libraries (180mb on ubuntu)