Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.
The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!
As a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes:
- Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : )
- Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
Is there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?
Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.
I expected better from HN :/
Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan
Yeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :)
And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness.
One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together.
Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.
The filter does not show directly whether it's filtered out or not - it's silent, otherwise the game would be "trick the AI filter" and that's a totally different genre.
The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!
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