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Twitter really isn't a social network. If you follow industry professionals and academics, it's a feed of interesting and important news tied to your direct int
by fortuna86 5y ago
Twitter really isn't a social network. If you follow industry professionals and academics, it's a feed of interesting and important news tied to your direct interests.
- mjburgess 5y agoAlas, this reads like a drug dealer distinguishing crack from cocaine.
- moron4hire 5y agoI don't think drug dealers do. Only the government does.
- cannabis_sam 5y agoI would hope anyone distributing any of the related substances DO distinguish between “crack” and “cocaine”..
- scdp 5y agoLet me guess, you dislike twitter because of the hyperbole and lack of nuance ... which you just used
- fortuna86 5y agoOr it's a simple distinction between what more resembles an RSS feed for people vs. traditional social media. But if you've made up your mind that it's all rubbish, by all means don't let me interrupt.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoOn reddit you've got your mates page which shows you only posts from people you follow, on facebook you can curate your wall to some extent to only see news from your family and friends. You can do the same thing on twitter. It's still social media and an extremely toxic implementation of it at that.
- fortuna86 5y agoSorry but you are still equating content from your friends with content from trusted sources and experts. I love my friends, I don't care what their opinions are on most things (because they are often uniformed). And I don't want to see endless pictures of their kids.
- markus_zhang 5y agoMaybe instead use some maillist instead of Twitter for important information? Not sure how expensive a server could be.
- prepend 5y agoExcept for the ones who are banned for violating the “Twitter Rules.” So it’s good if you like a feed of things tied to your direct interests, that Twitter allows. I’m interested in Sci-Hub. I don’t want to use Twitter for part of my interested and the ??? for other things.
- fortuna86 5y ago> Except for the ones who are banned for violating the “Twitter Rules.” This reminds me of criticisms of "metoo". Yes, i'm sure someone somewhere got a raw deal. But as far as I can see the people banished deserve it, and the overall ecosystem is better for it.
- prepend 5y agoSo you think SciHub deserves it? And that we’re better off without their voice? Obviously, you’re free to think what you like but this seems like a sad and limited worldview. Assuming that everything removed from my perception deserves to be removed.
- fortuna86 5y agoI don't know. For what it's worth, the account is back and the entire basis for this conversation (a perm suspension) is null and void. The system largely works, from what I can see. Getting thrown off Twitter for 24h isn't that bad of a mistake even, given the scale of the challenge they face to enforce their TOS to billions of accounts.
- BoorishBears 5y agoCan't be banned from HN right?
- fortuna86 5y agoYou can.