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<h1>SillyPost.net</h1>
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<h5>2025-05-05</h5>
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<h4>written by Niko Viau-Chow-Stuart (Founder)</h4>
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<img src="/blog/posts/sillypost/sillypost.png"
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alt="the sillypost logo"/>
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good day vorers!
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so after around a week or two of being trapped at home due to my car breaking down,
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being super burnt out on everything, and also just generally being really out of it and tired due to
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some unknown sickness going around, i was struggling quite a bit to get lifeblood and asklyphe stuff out on
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time.
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i'm not sure if it was just demotivation, burnout, or probably a large combination of the two mixed in with
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my exhaustion, but i needed a break and to just work on something simple for a bit.
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i had recently rewatched The Social Network (2010) and somehow i had this completely unrelated thought of
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"huh, i wonder how hard it'd be to make a social network"
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i've wanted to do something like this for years, way before the company started, but one thing that stopped
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me usually, was that i wasn't sure what i could do that wasn't already achieved way better elsewhere.
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i probably wouldn't have done it this time either, unless i had already been thinking of something else;
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if you've been on any social media site lately, such as bluesky, some part of the fediverse, or are unlucky
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enough to still be on twitter; hell, even if not on social media at all, you've probably noticed that a lot of the world seems
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quite depressing lately.
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this definitely isn't caused 100% by social media, in fact i think that social media is just a very small
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part of why things are kinda depressing; however, in my opinion, the main way that every major social media
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site functions, whether intentional or not, has the side effect of either consciously or unconsciously
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making its users end up eventually feeling either sad or angry while using it.
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this was (and definitely still is) a huge problem on twitter, is still a problem on bluesky, and is also
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a problem on the fediverse. unless you curate your feed really well, you're going to end up seeing a ton of
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posts that just make you angry or upset. this isn't necessarily a bad thing, i think it's still important
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to keep up-to-date with news and know whats going on in the world; but i think that we also deserve a place
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where we can just have some pure whimsy without needing to think about that, at least for a little bit
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this is when i realized, the issue isn't any of these sites themself; it's that the core concept of how
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most microblogging sites work causes this to happen.
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so i figured i could make something that doesn't have these same issues.
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sillypost (<a href="https://sillypost.net">available at sillypost.net</a>) is still technically a
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microblogging site, however it has a lot of key features that are designed
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to incentivize its users to
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<li>not get into fights</li>
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<li>not engagement bait</li>
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<li>not get angry at someone they don't even know</li>
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<li>keep a relatively happy and carefree environment</li>
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with these goals in mind, here are some of the key features of sillypost:
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<li>you can only see the last 10 posts someone has made</li>
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<li>you can only see posts of people you're friends with</li>
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<li>you have to request to be friends with someone</li>
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<li>posts can have a maximum of 64 characters</li>
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<li>you cannot reply to posts, or do what twitter would call "retweeting" or "quote retweeting"</li>
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<li>all user-user actions are private, you can send a dm to someone, but no one knows who you're friends
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with or who interacted with a post
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now you might think initially that this is an incredibly limiting social network, and i would agree with
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you.
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it's intentionally limiting because the goal of this isn't to replace something like bluesky or the
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fediverse,
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but to provide a place where you can just post whatever short little joke or idea comes into your head,
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and have it seen be your friends and no one else!
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and that's what i think makes sillypost completely different from any other social network.
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sillypost is still in beta, you can only join if someone invites you and i'm planning on keeping it that
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way.
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i'm very happy with how the launch has gone, and am excited to see where it goes from here!
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there's also plenty of stuff planned to keep the site fun and enjoyable, we already have a system for
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playing small little browser games on the site and are planning on adding more soon!
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i also occasionally give out some invite codes on my bluesky account, so keep watch there if you want in!
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<h2>everything else</h2>
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as with every other project i've started, this isn't replacing anything else i'm working on.
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i'm still working on everything else, although updates might take a bit as i've still been having a bit of
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a rough time with sickness
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i think that this is a really fun side project though, and am very happy so far! (:
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best wishes, and happy voring!
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