Vinay Vasanji on Warpcast

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@vinayvasanji.eth

Question: do we really need message history for all digital communications? It seems like the default for most chat/comms apps (with the exception of FC DCs). IRL interactions often have no history or record except what we remember

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Had the same thought some while ago :) https://twitter.com/bitsikka/status/1519980264210190338

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I personally am very attached to memories, I spend a good amount everyday where I scroll past my old archives on messages, photos, insta or snap to relive certain memories.

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I am thankful for all of my old messages with my mom because she’s dead and I can’t have any more conversations with her. I like being able to see conversations we had.

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Relate to this question. An obsession with owning our identity / all posts etc just makes me think of all is old people and our physical photo albums (owned identity) which gather dust.

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Michael Pfister

IMO everything should be recorded and stored in perpetuity forever Will unlock massive benefits as data to train personal AGI assistants

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This is in part a personality type and part a feature. Being able to favourite / store / sync route messages is useful. “Save this to my notebook tagged by the person or channel” I think ephemeral will come to be seen as useful to not be overwhelmed by a noisy archive.

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Snapchat built an entire platform on ephemeral experiences, parts of which (stories) went on to become overused hammers in the industry

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I like being able to look through past convos on messaging apps. Have gotten annoyed when I look back and the messages are gone

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This is why I kind of like BeReal it’s like my mini rollup journal where I can look back to what I was doing at a certain moment or day

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I am a fan of DMs that I can toggle to permanent/vanish mode inside the same thread. I have a long running DM thread where I have been analyzing/discussing a topic with a friend. In between we also shoot the shit. Toggling between gives me the ability to save what’s important. However would love a better UI for it.

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@michaelcjoseph

I'm a big fan of roll-ups. I do a version of this in my personal life, where I journal at the end of every day for 5 minutes. Every week, I look at what happened every day, and note the highlights and low points. Every month, I look at the weekly, and every year I look the monthly.

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Ephemeral messaging maxi

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I’m generally bullish on default expirations

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