Picto - The social network where the whole world speaks emoji
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Picto is an emoji-only social network. No text, no language barrier — a kid in Seoul and a grandma in Brazil can be friends. Photos are earned, not spammed: every 5 reactions = 1 photo ticket. Emoji-only comments mean hate speech is literally impossible. Start in 3 seconds as a guest — no signup.
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Have you thought about adding a quick reaction limit per person per day so bots or really enthusiastic fans can't tank the photo ticket system for everyone else
@erdoanpyfi very thank u! i will check it!!!!
@erdoanpyfi shipped it — you found a real hole, thank you 🙏
Two caps are live now. First, a daily reaction limit: 120/day signed in, 40/day for guests — guest accounts are free to create, so they get the tighter one.
Second, the one you were really pointing at: a single account can now only contribute 3 reactions toward any one person's photo tickets, and self-reactions no longer count at all. So earning a ticket requires reaching different people — one very enthusiastic fan (or one bot) hitting everything you post can't mint tickets for you anymore.
Both are enforced in the database security rules, not just in the app: the reaction and the quota increment are one atomic write, and the daily bucket comes from server time so it can't be rotated. I tested it against the live rules — resetting the quota, jumping it, and faking the date all get rejected, and a guest stops at exactly 40.
All of it is live now — genuinely the most useful comment I got this launch 🙌
jumped in as a guest in like 5 seconds and the no-text rule is weirdly addictive. Makes you actually look at the photos instead of scrolling past captions.
@ouzojtl hah okay~~!!
@ouzojtl that's exactly the effect I was chasing, and you put it better than my own landing page does 🙏
Worth flagging since it's the thing you liked: "you actually look at the photo" only holds while photos stay scarce, and Erdoğan spotted a hole in exactly that. Photo tickets were minted purely from raw reaction count, so a handful of throwaway accounts could farm them and flood the feed. That's fixed and live now — one account can only push 3 reactions toward any one person's tickets, plus a daily reaction cap.
One thing I'd love to know: did you stay a guest, or sign in? The 3-second start is the part I'm least sure about — I don't know yet whether skipping signup helps people stay or just makes it easy to leave.