Having used the app, if this is the future of discussion then I don't want it. There are innumerable ways to trip concealed content filters that then deceptively remove posts in a way that makes it look like community action rather than top-down content moderation. Some of these filters are great for preventing liability for their app, but make the app worthless for useful discussion. I can't wait until they implement their natural language filters so that mentioning suicide or a gun generates an automated community check or police visit, or it's just impossible to violate opaque ideological norms set by app creators in a high-tech version of manufactured consent.<p>Using modern social apps for me is starting to feel like navigating a Kafka-esque bureaucracy. I don't know the right thing to do to be heard, I don't know the wrong thing to do to not bring down sanctions on me, and I often struggle to navigate the app because I don't know the invisible use patterns behind unlabeled buttons and hidden swipe menus, dot-replies, etc. Am I shadow-banned? Does the app hide my replies until I pass some invisible commenting threshold? How do I page through replies? Are my posts being seen by a few people or everyone, and by what criteria? All invisible.
Just went to install this app. Asks for identity, Location (understandable given the nature), photos, media, files, device ID and call information, and wi-fi connection info.<p>No thanks. How can you call your app anonymous and require my identity and contents of my device?
Pseudoanonymous or unilateral anonymity, since I'm almost certain that Yik Yak keeps track of post and users and with the current state of machine learning it is trivial to later pinpoint a person with said posts. Don't like the word anonymous being thrown out there and making users think that they have true anonymity, to me it almost feels like false advertisement.
"For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall." - this is pure conjecture being presented as fact...
<i>For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall.</i><p>I didn't get that from the secret shut-down at all. From all the talk here after the shut down it was largely a factor of 1. low quality secrets being gamed to get to the top and thus not interesting and slowing growth and 2. it's rebranding making it dull.
It sounds cool, but it appears to be full of bored stoner comments ("waaaassssup" etc.) and people just being obscene. There are also very few updates in my fairly populated area. It's going to be hard to create a community<p>I'm also fairly sure I could just spoof the location of my rooted phone and view and post to whatever region I liked.