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@torbahax I was chatting with someone about a related topic recently. Technology is often perceived as this sterile, inhuman influence on our culture but in reality it brings us together and arguably more empathetic. Jelly, Kindly, Secret, Whisper, and PSTMRK come to mind. I wrote a bit about this several months ago. cc @jordanwalker

@rrhoover @torbahax @jordanwalker ...Is it possible that we use technology in ways that are making us less empathetic?

@jasonyogeshshah @rrhoover @torbahax It certainly changes the dynamic and one's whole perspective of a service when you realize a human is putting in their time to help you. Path Talk Placesfor instance has been really helpful to me lately and I think I appreciate it even more knowing there is another human handling my request, even if it's a call center. With my app, Kindly, people are looking out for each other every day, it's pretty inspiring.

@torbahax Yes, that's what makes us really interested in solving this problem!

@bracco cool idea, but imagine if 4chan jumped on it.

@7ewis @bracco I think community driven alerts could work if we can build strong, kind, honest community - which I believe is a very very very difficult task. Since the notification by the nature is quite precise and time sensitive, we do not want to take the risk - quality of the notification is highest importance for us right now.

@theforthwall Thanks! We are currently trying really hard to fulfill each and every request. From seeing quite a few requests so far, I'm noticing a lot of geographical requests(personally interest in X), mentions of their Y on big media outlets / social sites, and interestingly, bl0wj0bs. ;-)