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by citricsquid 5611 days ago
I guess I'd sort of be interested in this, but Facebook already does what I want. I haven't used Frid.ge (no friends to try it with) so I don't know exactly how the groups work, but part of the value in Facebooks customisation is the ability to hide stuff from a single person without making the distinction clear. With this anyone who uses Frid.ge understand that you're going to be hiding stuff from them, assuming a person I want to hide stuff from cared about what is happening with me enough to add me as a friend here, they're going to be pissed when they find I hide stuff from them, "don't you trust me?". If you have a boss who is touchy about you partying, they're probably going to care when you hide it from them, it goes from "it doesn't happen!" to "it does happen but I don't want you to see it". It implies you have something to hide.

Facebook already allows me to hide the rare thing I don't want certain friends seeing, this seems overkill, although I'm assuming there is more to Frid.ge than just being able to hide from certain people so I won't say it's a terrible idea, but based on the video I am not attracted to it.