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Hey Sam! I'm Louis, the guy who built Nicheless. The purpose of the platform is simple – it's a place to improve your thoughts through writing.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/why-i-built-this

Also, people can like and reply to your posts, but both those are private. Only you'll know how many likes a post has, and all replies will go directly to your DMs instead of a comment section. This is so that it helps reduce uneccessary trolling and status games among people, with the goal of making it easier for people to write for the sake of thinking, and not to impress their audiences which may or may not exist.

Let me know if you have any questions. Happy that you took the time to try it out.



Can a user turn off the DMs? Pretty much every woman who writes publicly on the internet gets unsolicited hate-DMs.


Yes they can. Currently, the only way to DM a person is to reply to a post. Each post lets you toggle the Likes and Reply (DM) feature for that post. So if you leave the Reply toggle off for all posts, you won't be able to receive them. Folks that have already replied to earlier posts that had the reply feature on will still be to continue the conversation though. I'll probably add a Block feature at some point in the near future though.




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