u/dudes_indian

I know it sounds a lot but I've been toying with the idea of building a social media platform that would fill in the niche between modern doomscrolling platforms and drab dry forums of the past. I honestly miss the forum days but I do see why they died down, modern endless scrollers are just far too addictive but they make it very hard for actual information to be retained and curated.

The app would have a large virtual map where users exist (not their actual geographic location). They can move around on the map in limited capacity and post things from wherever, whatever they post has tags which show up as an overlay on the map. The tags with the highest posts show up the biggest while others show up smaller. New users can decide what area of the map they wish to stay in.

The "feed" of the user contains only the posts from their neighbours. If someone was no longer interested in the topics around their location, they would need to move away to a favourable spot. This intentional friction would make it harder for feeds to get corrupted by slop, in theory.

There could also be regional threads/topics which behaved more like forum posts, which would come up top if there is a new comment unlike the regular user driven feed where post ranking would decay with time.

The location driven posts stay with the user and would be more for Instagram/tiktok format posts while the regional threads would be able to collect data and present users with pages and pages of reading material.

I know it sounds a lot but I've been toying with the idea of building a social media platform that would fill in the niche between modern doomscrolling platforms and drab dry forums of the past. I honestly miss the forum days but I do see why they died down, modern endless scrollers are just far too addictive but they make it very hard for actual information to be retained and curated.

The app would have a large virtual map where users exist (not their actual geographic location). They can move around on the map in limited capacity and post things from wherever, whatever they post has tags which show up as an overlay on the map. The tags with the highest posts show up the biggest while others show up smaller. New users can decide what area of the map they wish to stay in.

The "feed" of the user contains only the posts from their neighbours. If someone was no longer interested in the topics around their location, they would need to move away to a favourable spot. This intentional friction would make it harder for feeds to get corrupted by slop, in theory.

There could also be regional threads/topics which behaved more like forum posts, which would come up top if there is a new comment unlike the regular user driven feed where post ranking would decay with time.

The location driven posts stay with the user and would be more for Instagram/tiktok format posts while the regional threads would be able to collect data and present users with pages and pages of reading material.

Im camping there very soon and I've been there once before when it was closed so I didnt do any hiking. I've read that theres a hike that goes to Panther Creek Falls but I am not sure how long that hike is from the campground. Ideally I am trying to figure out if there's a trail that goes to Panther creek which I can start from somewhere close (short drive maybe) to the campground and then hike the rest.

Other than that, are there any other cool hikes in the area?

AI is driving the push for datacenters recently but video social media still drives 90% of the traffic and fuels the AI industry. You do not need thousands of data centers just for corporate AI, they're primarily there to process the peta bytes of video flowing through social media. Why not move away? Why post videos complaining about data centers? That's like complaining about traffic while being traffic.

Let me preface it by saying the trip was great, the campsite was lovely and the area is gorgeous!

I like to leave a light on in my campsite through the night to keep the bugs away from the tent and I have cheap battery operated bulbs which I have been using for a while. I did the same this time and left a light turned on which was opposite to my tent on the extreme end of the campsite. From inside my tent I could see the light being on because I could see the silhouette of my chair on the tent wall which was kept right outside my tent.

At around 2am I woke up because a bird was making loud calls very close to my tent, it was kinda eerie but cool but I noticed that the light was no longer on. Nothing strange, these are just cheap bulbs and although I use rechargable lithium AAA cells in them, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the battery might have run out. So I went back to sleep.

In the morning I was packing up my camp and I went to collect that bulb, instinctively I tried to turn it on and to my surprise it started right up. Not only that, it ran for a good hour or so while I was packing my stuff. I turned it off when it was bright enough.

Again, high chance that it's just a shitty bulb which turns off in certain conditions, but it has never happened before and the switch requires some amount of pressure that it might not trigger just by the wind or something falling over it. Makes me question, did someone turn it off? I didn't see other campers in the morning in any other sites but over the night I did hear 2 or 3 vehicles drive by.