Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

(github.com)

10 points | by waaldev 5 days ago

7 comments

  • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
    At least one interesting concept:

    > Your first hundred readers are guaranteed. When you publish, your post is quietly shown to a hundred readers. No followers required, no algorithm to please. Good writing finds its people here.

    HN does something similar (although without concrete "at least X viewers"), new comments get some seconds/minutes on the top of the comments, before they slowly "fall down", similar idea I think, surface new things. Makes sense.

    I tried to signup, the form basically reported no errors nor success. Tried with just "asdasd" basically instead of semi-real information, then it was successful and asked to confirm my email. Then I went to the GitHub repository, and it says "reading is open to everyone; writing is by invitation", you might want to disable sign ups if you cannot really write anything anyways.

    • est 21 minutes ago
      that's a solid bootstrapping strategy until non-English writers starts to join
    • latexr 55 minutes ago
      > HN does something similar (…), new comments get some seconds/minutes on the top of the comments

      Only kind of. There’s some time/upvotes algorithm that determines that. If a submission has been live for a few hours or a day and already has a number of highly upvoted comments, new ones can appear so far down the list they’ll realistically not get read. Also, some submissions simply don’t get engagement, it not rare to find some with one or two comments, read by effectively no one.

  • doginasuit 12 minutes ago
    I'm a little confused, when I click "or just read" it asks me to create a blog. Is there any way to read the content without creating a blog?
  • maelito 10 minutes ago
    Is this based on ATproto ? I personnaly see new silos as something less interesting than ATProto apps.
  • sevg 8 minutes ago
    Tone deaf to have an (excessively verbose) LLM-generated readme for a blog product. Apparently writing a readme is too much to ask even for avid bloggers!
  • transmutation 47 minutes ago
    I like the concept of the message in a bottle. motivates me to write again.. But seems it requires an invite code?
  • dash2 1 hour ago
    It seems unusually tone deaf to call it a place for writers, and then let AI write the blurb.
  • newswasboring 36 minutes ago
    How does one get an invite code for this?