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Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (https://dedede.de/en) that invites people to share the various positives, negatives, oddities, etc. they find in urban spaces.

The project grew out of an earlier effort where we'd built an app that assisted participatory urbanism workshops run by local nonprofits. With the new platform, we're trying to build something similar but more casual and hopefully with broader appeal, that'll be fun to use even outside of formal workshop situations.

We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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ripley12
This is very cool, thanks for sharing it. I'll try to add some entries about Vancouver when I have time.
kappasan
Thanks, would love to see posts from outside Japan!
mc3301
Oh cool, when I have free time I have many dozens in Japan that I could add.
kappasan
OP here - just to let you know the signup form asks for an email address, but we're just using it as the user ID so a non-working address works fine.

EDIT: apart from one minor inconvenience, you won't be able to reset your password if you forget it

bythreads
Love it, simple sentiment gathering. AI bots are going to love to crawl that one ;)
upghost
Incidentally while exploring this site I discovered how much better the highlight and "translate" feature of iOS has gotten!

Thanks kappasan!

chachan
This is the internet I miss.
[dead] cc101
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kappasan
I guess you're referring to this one? https://dedede.de/en/posts/CimzQqTYi4

FWIW that's a post I made myself - the German embassy in Tokyo put up a series of posters explaining some German words, and that's the image they chose for "schadenfreude".

ash_091
Could you explain that? Absent other context (i.e. a broader collection of works demonstrating some bias) I'm not understanding how this poster can possibly demonstrate "offensive racial and cultural bigotry".
cc101
If it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians.

Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.

southernplaces7
see my comment above. It's you and those who view the world in the same way who have the automatic fixation with race, not someone just showing human interaction.
cc101
Your comment is a personal attack. It adds nothing else to the discussion. We don't do that sort of thing here.
southernplaces7
Wasn't a personal attack. I was attacking the opinion. And in any case, pointless, completely contrived race baiting does have a place here? Those are the kinds of comments that deserve to be called out for their blatant stupidity.

Also, people on this site regularly engage in personal attacks. I'd suggest you read the comments on many posts more carefully since you've appointed yourself to be the conduct police.

southernplaces7
Really? Assuming that one doesn't fixate obsessively on race for the sake of trying to hunt down perceived offense wherever possible, the poster should just be viewed as that of one human being laughing at the misfortune of another, without condescendingly assuming that because the weeping girl is Asian (not "oriental", since you're nailed so firmly to proper racial nuance), she must immediately be a victim and worthy of special consideration.

What a sick little mentality, that of viewing all human interaction through the lens of what ethnicity or race is shown and how that frames any context.

sinuhe69
Adding automatic translation will make the site more accessible for a broader audience.
kappasan
I agree that is very true. We'll see if there are free (or very cheap) solutions we could use.