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Oh great! Now people are posting 'toots' as news stories, as well as tweets. Why don't we just go the whole hog and embed Twatter inside an iframe on HN and di

Oh great! Now people are posting 'toots' as news stories, as well as tweets. Why don't we just go the whole hog and embed Twatter inside an iframe on HN and discuss our favourite Tweets entirely via emojis?

rsynnott 4y ago
I mean, it's essentially a blogpost, with a blogging platform that has particularly poor UX (Mastodon actually does allow longer-form posts, but mastodon.social, the instance being used here, doesn't support them). If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable?
- Normille 4y ago
  Point taken. I didn't actually follow the link. Just saw the domain and, in my mind 'Mastodon = Twitter-Lite'. >If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable? No offence meant. It's just one of my bug-bears at the minute that practically every news site on the planet now [even supposedly professional outfits like the BBC and Reuters] seems to have abandoned any pretence at primary research in favour of endlessly quoting what people tweeted... often with a screengrab of the tweet and then the content of the tweet written out underneath. As someone who has nothing to do with Twitter [or FB or Mastodon for that matter] I just find it both extremey irritating and equally as alarming that it seems to be becoming the de facto place where journalist go to research a story. Hence why I tend to voer-react when I see the same tendency creeping in on HN, which I used to think of as a 'place where I can go to read interesting science and technology articles that people have come across'. If I wanted to know what someone tweeted, I'd go directly to Twitter. I can really do without the entire newsgathering section of the internet turning into a Twitter mirror site.
  - rsynnott 4y ago
    This _is_ a technology article, in an annoying format. (FWIW I would prefer that people didn't do it this way, but we are where we are)

rsynnott 4y ago

I mean, it's essentially a blogpost, with a blogging platform that has particularly poor UX (Mastodon actually does allow longer-form posts, but mastodon.social, the instance being used here, doesn't support them). If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable?

Normille 4y ago
Point taken. I didn't actually follow the link. Just saw the domain and, in my mind 'Mastodon = Twitter-Lite'. >If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable? No offence meant. It's just one of my bug-bears at the minute that practically every news site on the planet now [even supposedly professional outfits like the BBC and Reuters] seems to have abandoned any pretence at primary research in favour of endlessly quoting what people tweeted... often with a screengrab of the tweet and then the content of the tweet written out underneath. As someone who has nothing to do with Twitter [or FB or Mastodon for that matter] I just find it both extremey irritating and equally as alarming that it seems to be becoming the de facto place where journalist go to research a story. Hence why I tend to voer-react when I see the same tendency creeping in on HN, which I used to think of as a 'place where I can go to read interesting science and technology articles that people have come across'. If I wanted to know what someone tweeted, I'd go directly to Twitter. I can really do without the entire newsgathering section of the internet turning into a Twitter mirror site.
- rsynnott 4y ago
  This _is_ a technology article, in an annoying format. (FWIW I would prefer that people didn't do it this way, but we are where we are)