FAQ
- What is this?
- A social non-network.
- How does it work?
- You throw bottles in the sea, stranger can answer them. You can't answer back. It's not a discussion.
- Can you elaborate? It's pretty cryptic.
-
be_kind
uses the metaphor of a bottle at sea.
You can throw
a bottle with a message inside.
Other users might be able to catch
it, read it, and answer it.
Each bottle can have several answers.
Once you get an answer, you can send back a thank
if you feel like it.
And that's it.
- Are there rules? Limits?
-
Bottles
can contain 250 characters. Answers
can contain 1500 characters.
Thanks
contain nothing.
Bottles can be sent once a day, and caught once an hour.
- What about trolls? How do you moderate the content?
-
When you catch
a bottle
you can decide to put it back in the water or not. This way
nobody else will see it and everyone is a moderator. Coupled with the
time limit listed above, it's a pretty safe space in my experience.
- Where did you get that idea?
- I documented my reflection here
if that helps.
- Is it open source?
- Yes it is!
- Can you share the algorithm?
- Sure! Every social platform should do so. It's plain simple: the algorithm to select a bottle is:
- Take all the bottles that aren't on the shore.
- Remove the one you already saw.
-
Take all the bottle with the minimum number of answers.
- Keep only the one that has been seen the least.
- If several are left, take the one least answered.
- If several are left, take a random one.
- Can I use my account on another device?
-
Yes! Use the following link on another device to bind it to the current account:
/change_user/unknown