Sublevel – A personal network

[voltagex_]

So many words to say so little. What is this about? Is it closer to app.net or to OwnCloud? Why would I choose this over Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Blogger or Medium?

[davidbarker]

I'm not the site's creator, but having played around with it for an hour or so, it seems to be a similar idea to the original Twitter (with additional things like threaded replies, and without a character limit).

[XaspR8d]

Something something emergent interactional value?

[prawn]

Made me wonder about a Twitter-style social network where you were the only human, and you knew it. Those that gradually followed and interacted with you were all bots mimicking humans, but for once not spamming or with an ulterior motive. Your content would never be seen by anyone else.

The bots would arrive to compliment, question and challenge you.

Would people care that they weren't real? Outside of the friends we know on Twitter now, do we know which of the rest are definitely real anyway?

Sounds a bit crazy, but just wondering if people will reach a point where they interact with bots and don't care if they give them what they want in terms of attention and validation.

[valarauca1]

What if the bots weren't bots and were actually people. Just every single person would see every user with a randomized user name and no special 'user layout', and no identifying profile information.

Everyone would think, and see that every other account on the site was bots. The site would claim that every account you interact with is a bot, but in the background they aren't, their all people.

[dmix]

They desperately need a copywriter. This is classic meaningless brand copy, full of platitudes.

[serf]

All I took away from from the page was the color codes for if I want to advertise for them, whoever it/they is/was/plans to be.

[gregschlom]

I came to the comments to see if somebody could explain what this thing is about. Seems like I'm not the only one not getting it...

Feedback for the author: your marketing copy needs to explain clearly what your product does.

[metabren]

"Sublevel is to Twitter what Pinboard is to Delicious, Reddit to Digg, Linux to Windows, Android to iOS, etc."

http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html

[azinman2]

So they want to be an permeant underdog (w/the exception of Reddit)? Or a more geeky & less slick implementation?

Odd goal.

[walterbell]

Thank you! Should be linked on sublevel.net

[chrislloyd]

It said "All you have to do is just write." so I started typing something and it didn't do anything.

[RossM]

I like the advertising strategy - one unobtrusive ad for everyone, for a whole week. The free charity ads are a nice touch too.

It's either going to stick in your head out of persistence (perhaps subconsciously) or get mentally blocked (though I'd bet on the former).

[rdl]

Even after reading the comments here too, I still have no idea what this is supposed to be.

[olh]

I am pretty sure this is satire.

[personjerry]

I looked at the front page and got no info about what it actually and lost interest.

[rjurney]

The value is subconscious.

[eigenrick]

"Sublevel is made for people like you"

No it isn't. I run Linux :(

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