cackles

cackles

@cackles.xyz

🤪 the best laugh on the internet 🚀 3x founder, early adopter 🔗 https://www.cackles.club

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cackles
@cackles.xyz

From the start of building, I thought of Cackles as a voice-first social app. People hop into rooms. They talk. They hang out. Simple. Then I pulled December’s usage data. And it quietly rewired my brain.

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cackles
@cackles.xyz

Not “mostly audio.” Not “audio-first.” Audio-dominant to the point of being a behavioral law.

cackles
@cackles.xyz

From the start of building, I thought of Cackles as a voice-first social app. People hop into rooms. They talk. They hang out. Simple. Then I pulled December’s usage data. And it quietly rewired my brain.

cackles
@cackles.xyz

On the surface, it looked like a normal activity log. Daily minutes. Audio. Video. Nothing flashy. But when I actually studied how people were spending time, something much more interesting appeared. Over 99% of all human time on Cackles was audio.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

nytimes.comThe Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of BankruptcyThe satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social

remember when this guy fired Iceland's person of the year, mocked him for his disability, then belatedly realized the dude was on a "DO NOT FIRE" list because he was the founder of a company Twitter acquired and so firing him would cost a staggering sum of money?

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cackles
@cackles.xyz

wondering if the the invite constraints imposed by the team have affected the activity here. seems like a lot of the hype has died. not sure what retention is looking like but i'm seeing less new skeets in my skyline. fwiw i like it here a lot. just my observations.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

People underestimate how much it takes to get to critical mass as a social media app. TikTok spent $1 billion a year in app install ads to be the juggernaut it is today. Just building compelling features hasn’t been enough in like a decade.

Jake@jakeliebert.com

I’d probably be most willing to go wherever some critical mass of people I follow go. Content density is still on Twitter and I’m actually starting to wonder whether a Twitter-like service can even be recreated

cackles
@cackles.xyz

amen

Marco Arment@marcoarment.bsky.social

These aren’t governments or public places. Nobody has the right to be here. You don’t need to be fair, objective, or accommodating to hate speech and assholes. If they’re abusing, threatening, or driving away others, don’t defend their rights or argue with them about policies — just kick them out.

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Jay 🦋
@jay.bsky.team

Replying to @jay.bsky.team

Any post or imagery that threatens violence or physical harm, regardless of whether the statement was metaphorical or literal, will result in at least a temporary account suspension, and for multiple violations we will remove the account from being hosted on our server.

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Bluesky
@bsky.app

New feature just dropped: custom feeds! Now you can choose what algorithm powers your social media experience. We’ll feature some in this thread, but you can easily discover more in the feeds tab. Rolling out to app stores now — upgrade to Version 1.29 when it’s available in your app store.

cackles
@cackles.xyz

super freaking cool 😎

Chris Messina@chrismessina.me

Arc Browser just launched Boosts — a new way to edit the internet. 🎨 They're a modern take on UserStyles/UserScripts, along with a pubic gallery featuring the best Boosts. I helped them launch on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/arc-boosts-2

producthunt.comArc Boosts - Create your own internet | Product HuntBoosts are a new way to edit and remix your internet, and share it with friends! Boosts are created inside Arc, a new web browser for Mac and iPhone.
cackles
@cackles.xyz

wondering if the the invite constraints imposed by the team have affected the activity here. seems like a lot of the hype has died. not sure what retention is looking like but i'm seeing less new skeets in my skyline. fwiw i like it here a lot. just my observations.

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Chris Messina
@chrismessina.me

That sound you hear is the collective sigh of 10000 generative AI makers on Product Hunt who previously released their own paid version of what Google just announced for free: https://searchengineland.com/google-product-studio-generative-ai-images-427429

searchengineland.comGoogle Product Studio brings AI-generated images to advertisersThis new Google tool will help merchants punch up existing product images into alternate creative using Google AI.

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P(aul) Frazee
@pfrazee.com

a little sneak peek how cool is it that @skyfeed.xyz has its own algos ready to go

alice@alice.mosphere.at

if you want to try the new feeds *now* even the new, much improved what's hot, the `custom-algos` branch of the official app works now without any tweaks you can go to @bsky.app and @skyfeed.xyz to subscribe to them and then pin them https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/tree/custom-algos