Hi. I understand your point, but I think there is another side to this. Waldi started within the Persian community. a community where blogging had largely been abandoned in favor of social media since 2016. People really resonated with the serendipity built into the project. Because of that, I believe Waldi can become a home for other communities, too. They might be people whose language I don't speak, but I can still discover them and get to know them through Waldi's randomness.
In this case, AI is just a tool to help translate the original project into English. I do plan on rewriting the GitHub README myself soon. However, I don't think AI is something we must entirely avoid if it ultimately helps people discover and connect with others they might never have reached before.
> AI is just a tool to help translate the original project into English.
1. It seems unlikely that you wrote the original filled with LLM-speak, so this isn't a faithful translation; your tool to help translate has added a lot that will negatively affect the translation's impact
2. Your target readership does not want to communicate with generated text; it's going to give you the exact opposite of connection because they'll respond negatively to it
It's not a wall. The blogs have their own subdomain or custom domain and they are public. They are findable by search, the foundation of Internet discovery. But the account creation is for getting random stranger posts every morning to find blogs that you didn't know existed.
It would help a heap to show some blogposts and on the landing page so people would know what they will get when you ask for account even for the readers.
Hi, I fixed the issue you reported. The signup no longer requires a blog description and name. For now only writing access require an invitation, just to keep the stranger box posts at a minimum quality level. The main benefit of creating an account on Waldi is that you can follow blogs and receive one random stranger post every morning.
Fair point. English isn't my first language and Waldi grew up Persian-first and I leaned on AI to draft the English readme. I will rewrite it soon (and make it shorter too). the Persian is all me. the English version deserves it too.
To do the same, move your blog to the free plan on digitalpress.blog (a Ghost hosting provider). Then use the Ghost JavaScript SDK to pull content and build a static site with Astro. You can write posts in the Ghost editor and publish them seamlessly with Astro.
In this case, AI is just a tool to help translate the original project into English. I do plan on rewriting the GitHub README myself soon. However, I don't think AI is something we must entirely avoid if it ultimately helps people discover and connect with others they might never have reached before.