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My company called Bemize (bee-myz)

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:51pm

Hi. My name is Osvaldo. I'm designing a social media app. It'll be called Bemize.

My plan is to make all accounts verified. I'll design something called Reputation to quantify value for each user.

What are your thoughts? Is account verification for everyone a nice thing to optimize good conversations and authenticity?

Reputation will consider your follower count, your likes, your comments, time on the platform, post count.

Could this feature also play well with verified profiles?

What are your thoughts? Is this a kind of app you'd use? Any feedback would be nice. I’m trying to gather support for my pitch to investors.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745689

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Soilcrates

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:46pm

Article URL: https://soilcrates.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745663

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The Bees Are Disappearing Again

SlashDot - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:12pm
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Embzip

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:06pm

Article URL: https://github.com/jxmorris12/embzip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745365

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Ask HN: WhatsApp Alternatives?

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:02pm

Hi,

are there any alternative other than using Signal? Is there an OTR Encryption tool that integrates into the keyboard/clipboard on iOS/Android devices?

Even as an early adopter in most tech, including in WhatsApp, I did hope I'd never see the scale of illegal surveillance that is happening today on the entire consumer industry.

I feel nothing but powerlessness over the elimination of privacy.

WhatsApp communication is considered public in court and is credibly being monitored (source: friends at criminal investigation units and https://www.google.com/search?q=whatsapp+communication+monitoring ).

You don't need anything to hide to be criminally investigated. It could just be "dissent" to a government or a corruption case you want to blow the whistle on or any coincidental messages that in the wrong context appear in a different meaning. The state-level eaves-dropping has grown to a perverse level and a precise tool to identify key-persons. Even HN has fingerprinting to identify who said what independent of accounts.

Looking for any choices that are left or ideas on howto keep (team) communications outside of total surveillance.

Do you think privacy and encrypted communication that can't be cracked by the government should be outlawed or considered illegal?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745345

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