Orkut founder petitions to rebuild a more human social network
What happened
On October 8, Hacker News' front page reported that Orkut founder Orkut Büyükkökten started a petition on orkut.com calling for a new social network built around real people, real connections and a sense of belonging. He criticized existing platforms for spending the past two decades optimizing only for attention, and said bots, AI slop and deepfakes are eroding the basic premise that a real person is on the other side. Users can sign on the site and get a supporter card, but signing does not reserve a username or account.
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- Hacker News front pageOrkut.com
Orkut 创始人 Orkut Büyükkökten 在 orkut.com 发起签名请愿，希望重建一个以真实的人、真实连接和归属感为核心的新社交网络。他批评现有平台二十年只顾优化注意力，并称 AI 带来的机器人、AI slop、深度伪造正在侵蚀社交网络“对面是真人”这一前提。用户可在 orkut.com 签名并获得支持者卡片，签名不代表预订用户名或账号。
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